"I have no race prejudice of any kind. My kinfolks and my skinfolks are dearly loved. But I see their same virtues and vices everywhere I look, so I give you all my right hand of fellowship of love and hope the same for you. In my eyesight, you lose nothing by not looking just like me. I will remember you in all my good thoughts, and I ask you kindly to do the same for me. I have touched the four corners of the horizon. From hard searching it seems to me tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life."
—Zora Neale Hurston