Zora Neale Hurston Quote
All these words from the seller, but not one word from the sold. The Kings and Captains whose words moved ships. But not one word from the cargo. The thoughts of the black ivory, the coin of Africa, had no market value. Africa’s ambassadors to the New World have come and worked and died, and left their spoor, but no recorded thought.
Zora Neale Hurston
All these words from the seller, but not one word from the sold. The Kings and Captains whose words moved ships. But not one word from the cargo. The thoughts of the black ivory, the coin of Africa, had no market value. Africa’s ambassadors to the New World have come and worked and died, and left their spoor, but no recorded thought.
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