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Quotes from Dust Tracks on a Road — Zora Neale Hurston

1891–1960 United States

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

Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)

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

Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zora Neale Hurston (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.