“Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.”

— Zora Neale Hurston, book Dust Tracks on a Road

Variant: If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 12 : My People! My People!

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American folklorist, novelist, short story writer 1891–1960

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