Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove, I find, is like singing.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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People can be slave ships in shoes.
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I 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.
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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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I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
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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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I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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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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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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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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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
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Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.
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Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
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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 was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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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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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
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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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