Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONI have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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You heard me. You ain’t blind.
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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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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I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
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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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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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