Thread by @blackrepublican

"Personally, I have no desire for white association except where I am sought and the pleasure is mutual. That feeling grows out of my own self-respect. I see no glory to myself in the contact unless there is something more than the accident of race."

Zora Neale Hurston wrote the following letter in 1943. In it, she discusses her feelings about white “liberals.” blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2015/05/afrofo…

Dear Countee:

Thanks a million for your kind letter. I am always proud to have a word of praise from you because your friendship means a great deal to me. It means so much to me because I have never known you to make an insincere move, neither for personal gain, nor for malice

... growing out of jealousy of anyone else. Then too, you are my favorite poet now as always since you began to write. I have always shared your approach to art."

Continued here: comebyyuh.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/724/

“I've the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in search for reality, rather than climb the wagon of wishful illusions.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

I just love this 2016 (@NewYorker) cover for #BHM.

Zora is front and center - giving Malcom that #sideeye.