Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTwo things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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 head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
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Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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