“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

—  Zora Neale Hurston, book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 3, p. 21.

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American folklorist, novelist, short story writer 1891–1960

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