Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIf you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
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I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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