Carolina Quotes
Water will return just like our bodies. Our bodies will return to the earth. Water will return. Water comes from the earth, it will return to the earth.
John Blackfeather Jeffries Carolinian
Source
Interview with Joe Liles at his home in Hillsborough, North Carolina, March 13, 2019; published in Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River, volume 2 (Eno River Association)
- form
- interview
- work
- Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River, volume 2
- year
- 2019
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