"There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves."

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About Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was an American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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