Gods always behave like the people who make them. — Zora Neale Hurston · Skopia

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Autobiography and memoir

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Zora Neale Hurston

1938

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Tell My Horse. J.B. Lippincott Co., 1938, ch. 15.

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