Pengine Ni Sawa Tu Kuwa na Haraka na Upumbavu Kwa Muda...
Perhaps It Is Okay To Be Rash and Foolish for a While...
KISWAHILI
“Niliandika Macho Yao Yalikuwa Yanamwangalia Mungu [kitabu] huko Haiti. Ilifungwa ndani yangu, na niliiandika chini ya shinikizo la ndani katika wiki saba. Natamani ningeweza kukiandika tena.
“Kwa kweli, ninajutia vitabu vyangu vyote.
“Ni moja ya majanga ya maisha ambayo mtu hawezi kuwa na hekima yote ambayo mtu anaweza kuwa nayo hapo mwanzo. Pengine, ni sawa tu kuwa na haraka na upumbavu kwa muda. Ikiwa waandishi wangekuwa na hekima kupita kiasi, labda hakuna vitabu ambavyo vingeandikwa hata kidogo.
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)
[Nafasi kati ya sentensi ni zangu.]
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
“I wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God [book] in Haiti. It was dammed up in me, and I wrote it under internal pressure in seven weeks. I wish that I could write it again.
“In fact, I regret all of my books.
“It is one of the tragedies of life that one cannot have all the wisdom one is ever to possess in the beginning. Perhaps, it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all.”
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)
[Spacing between sentences are mine.]
Kuhusu (About):
KISWAHILI
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) alikuwa Mmarekani aliyekuwa mwanaanthropolojia, mchunguzi wa hekaya za umma, na mwandishi aliyehusishwa na Mwamko wa Harlem. Wasifu yake pia ni hapa.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She is also profiled here.
KISWAHILI: Asante na tutaonana tena,
Mmerikani
ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Thank you and may we see each other again,
Mmerikani
Chanzo (source): Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942, approximately page 222, or, third paragraph from the end of Chapter 12. Ebook created by Al Haines, Cindy Beyer & the Distributed Proofreaders Canada (DPC). Canada, 2017. Faded Page Public Domain repository. Retrieved on June 15, 2023 from https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20170216 (SCROLL DOWN to see available formats (.html, .pdf, etc.).
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