An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ ’bout you just what they hope done happened.”

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons.

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.

’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

They know it’s not courtship. It’s acting-out courtship and everybody is in the play.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight.