Inspiring Quotes and Iconic Works by Zora Neale Hurston

If you haven't got it, you can't show it... - Insights from Zora Neale Hurston

The quotes and works of Zora Neale Hurston delve into themes of life, love, friendship, and success. Their words provide profound insights and inspiration, encouraging readers to reflect and find meaning in their own lives. Whether you're seeking motivation or exploring timeless wisdom, Zora Neale Hurston 's words offer a source of guidance and enlightenment.

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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It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.
Zora Neale Hurston
#African american authors #Feminism #Literature

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Zora Neale Hurston
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Grief

People can be slave-ships in shoes.
Zora Neale Hurston
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It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Life #Living

Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
Zora Neale Hurston
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All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Human nature

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Insightful

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Zora Neale Hurston
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He has only heard what I felt.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Jazz #Music #Race

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
Zora Neale Hurston
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
Zora Neale Hurston
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It was the meanest moment of eternity.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Grief

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
Zora Neale Hurston
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People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Education #Opportunity

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
Zora Neale Hurston
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Listening #Storytelling

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Inspirational life

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Classics #Inspirational

Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Inspiring #Happiness #Success

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston
#Inspiration

You got to go there to know there.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Quotes and Iconic Works by Zora Neale Hurston

If you haven't got it, you can't show it... - Insights from Zora Neale Hurston