Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

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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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  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.155, Feminist Press at CUNY

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  If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

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  Pain, Silent, Harlem Renaissance

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  There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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  Life, Inspiring, Time

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.246, Feminist Press at CUNY

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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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  Courage, Reality, Nerves

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  Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

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  Writing, Science, Curiosity

  Zora Neale Hurston, Cheryl A. Wall (1997). “Sweat”, p.43, Rutgers University Press

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• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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  Moving, Love Is, Years

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• Such as I am, I am a precious gift.

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  Giving, Precious Gifts

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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.

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  Personality, Following Your Own Path, Shows

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

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  Strong, Hurt, Dirty

  World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

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• Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

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  Wisdom, Book, Donkey

  Zora Neale Hurston (1939). “Moses: Man of the Mountain”

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• Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

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  Kinfolk

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• The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

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  Past, Eggs, Shells

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “The Complete Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

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  Country, Lying, Fighting

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• Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

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  Motivational, Sleep, Men

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.

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  Men, Special, Every Man

  Zora Neale Hurston (1939). “Moses: Man of the Mountain”

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• You got to go there to know there.

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  Knows

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• They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

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  Eye, Dark, Staring

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 18 (1937)

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• Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.

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  Show Me, Shows, Knows

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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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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  Feelings, Abuse, Doing Things For Others

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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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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  Graduation, Talent, Shows

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• Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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  Motivational, God, Atheist

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• If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

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  Wise, Book, Agony

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.71, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. 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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  Life, Dream, Women

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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