It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONThose that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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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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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.
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My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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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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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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