They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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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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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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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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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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Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!
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Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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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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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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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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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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