Zora Neale Hurston

Quotes

1. "It’s uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo’ papa and yo’ mama and nobody else can’t tell yuh and show yuh. 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."

2. 

   If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.

3. 

   Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

   p. 203

4. 

   There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

   p. 21

5. 

   ‘So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he donʼt tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.’

6. 

   Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

   p. 9

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