Zora Neale Hurston vs. Franz Boas
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Zora Neale Hurston
1891 – 1960
Entertainment
United States
Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
#life
#knowledge
#religion
#love
#family
"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."
30 quotes
Franz Boas
1858 – 1942
Education
United States
#life
#philosophy
#knowledge
#mind
#writing
"The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake."
7 quotes
Connections
Franz Boas was influenced by Zora Neale Hurston
Shared era: 1891 – 1942
Both wrote about: