Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States Motivational Self-Help illustrator

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setting off sudden rainstorms and mysterious winds

just as her ancestor did nearly two thousand years ago

We are a billion voices

wash day isn't just a routine

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States Motivational Self-Help illustratorA recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faithsplendidly vivid and true.New York Times Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s. The bittersweet and often hilarious taleswhich range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, White Folk, and Mistaken Identity