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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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Zora N. Hurston
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More quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.
Zora Neale Hurston
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.
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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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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
Zora Neale Hurston
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
Zora Neale Hurston
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
Zora Neale Hurston
Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
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I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
Zora Neale Hurston
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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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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If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
Zora Neale Hurston
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.
Zora Neale Hurston
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
Zora Neale Hurston
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Zora Neale Hurston
But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.
Zora Neale Hurston
Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.
Zora Neale Hurston
Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Zora Neale Hurston
Silence is all the genius a fool has.
Zora Neale Hurston
