Knows Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

9 Knows quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston’s storytelling celebrates cultural richness, and her musings on knowing echo that vibrancy. This brief set offers a lively glimpse of her lyrical, anthropological insight.

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Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

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You got to go there to know there.

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

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I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know…

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Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning…

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We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for…

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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…

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Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do…

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Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah…

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Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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

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“The woman took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away from remembrance. It was a weapon against her strength and if…

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“They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans…So…

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“Years ago, she had told her girl self to wait for her in the looking glass. It had been a long time since she…

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“Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don’t pee-pee.”

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“Like the pecking-order in a chicken yard. Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can’t. Once having set…

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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

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Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

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