Author: Angela Flournoy

Cites

• Zora Neale Hurston (1)
  • IN: The Turner House (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Negro offers a feather-bed resistance. That is, we let the probe enter, but it never comes out. It gets smothered under a lot of laughter and pleasantries.
    FROM: Mules and Men, (1935), Book, US
• Philip Levine (1)
  • IN: The Turner House (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Out of the gray hills Of industrial barns, out of rain, out of bus ride, West Virginia to Kiss My Ass, out of buried aunties, Mothers hardening like pounded stumps, out of stumps, Out of the bones' need to sharpen and the muscles' to stretch, They Lion grow.
    FROM: "They Feed They Lion", (1968), Poem, US