Zora Neale Hurston

Hurston was the fifth of eight children. Her father was a preacher and mother was a school teacher. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama on January 7, 1891. Her family also moved to Eatonville, Florida where were one of the first all black towns to be incorporated in the United States. Her father later became mayor of the town.
In 1918, Hurston began undergraduate studies at Howard University. She later became one of the earliest initiates of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority and co-founded The Hilltop, the university's student newspaper. Hurston took many courses, Spanish, English, Greek and public speaking and earned an Associate's Degree in 1920. Hurston left Howard in 1924 and in 1925 was offered a scholarship to Barnard College. Hurston received her B.A. in anthropologyy in 1927.
When Hurston arrived in New York City in 1925. The mid-1930s, Hurston had published several short stories and the critically acclaimed Mules and Men. In the 1940s, Hurston's work was published in such periodicals as The American Mercury and The Saturday Evening Post. Also Her last published novel was Seraph on the Suwanee.

“Those that don't got it,

can't show it.

                                    

Those that got it,

can't hide it.”

What Zora mean by this quote is that if you have something its hard to show it off, but when you have it you cant hide it. Shes right because in any circumstance you can not show off what you do not have and when you do its impossible to hide it. This refers to my life and the life around me because everyone have something that they have that others don't and its hard to hide it from everyone, but when you have it, its to hard for anybody to hide it.