Zora Neale Hurston/The Innovative Woman

She taught the world that giving is receiving and making a way for others is making a way for everyone. One of the great factors of contributions to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance was the great migration of black Americans to northern cities, such as New York, where Hurston studied and published in Opportunity and Fire, which became a winning recognition in the Opportunity literary contests (Foner 10). Watson stated, “she has changed literature” (qtd. Setting and accomplishing goals, to the fullest extent, Hurston showed what it truly was to become a successful writer. Through her successful writings and influence literature Hurston began to inspire the world. Hurston became perhaps the most prolific and well-known woman writer of the Harlem Renaissance. It was something to be proud of, ashamed of, or even thought of. Hurston’s studies took her from New York to the Caribbean, and from New Orleans to Honduras. The novelist Alice Walker claims Hurston as a foremother and has written that “no other writer is as important” to her (Roses 516). She plunged into the social pleasure of the black community and made a record of what is said and done when Negroes are having good sociable time, dancing, singing, fishing, and above all incessantly talking (Bloom 103). She wrote various magazines in the 1950’s, but her increasingly conservative view concerning race relations effectively separated her from black intellectual culture (Bloom 103). grew increasingly personal, and she based the main characters on her parents. Hurston also showed how important it to change the features of African American folklore because she had taken notice that is was going to disappear. Her writing later became sources for myths and legends of the black culture.