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01c. 1925 AD

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston / quote

02c. 1925 AD

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Zora Neale Hurston / quote

03c. 1925 AD

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

Zora Neale Hurston / quote

04c. 1925 AD

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Zora Neale Hurston / quote

05c. 1925 AD

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

Zora Neale Hurston / quote

06c. 1925 AD

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston / quote