
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons.
Zora Neale Hurston • Their Eyes Were Watching God
Several men collected at Tea Cake’s house and sat around stuffing courage into each other’s ears.
Zora Neale Hurston • Their Eyes Were Watching God
Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West.
Zora Neale Hurston • Their Eyes Were Watching God
’Tain’t everybody would have thought of it, ’cause it ain’t no everyday thought. Freein’ dat mule makes uh mighty big man outa you. Something like George Washington and Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, he had de whole United States tuh rule so he freed de Negroes. You got uh town so you freed uh mule. You have tuh have power tuh free things and dat makes
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It was like seeing your sister turn into a ’gator. A familiar strangeness.
Zora Neale Hurston • Their Eyes Were Watching God
They know it’s not courtship. It’s acting-out courtship and everybody is in the play.
Zora Neale Hurston • Their Eyes Were Watching God
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
Zora Neale Hurston • Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches.
Zora Neale Hurston • Their Eyes Were Watching God
Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid.