Quote by Zora Neale Hurston: “Jump at de sun. We might not land on de sun, but at least we would get off de ground.”

This inspiring phrase encourages aiming high and striving for seemingly impossible goals. Even if you don't reach the ultimate target, the effort itself lifts you beyond your current limits and leads to progress, pushing you forward.

From *Dust Tracks on a Road*, Hurston's autobiography, published during World War II. The world was in upheaval, and for African Americans, the war highlighted racial inequalities both at home and abroad.

American novelist, anthropologist, and folklorist who documented African American folklore and culture in the rural South and Caribbean during the 1930s and 1940s. Her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is considered a masterwork of twentieth-century American literature.