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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Zora Neale Hurston
Age: 69 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 28
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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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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Silence is all the genius a fool has.
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All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
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Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.
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When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.
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The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
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Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.
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