Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonel...
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Janie full of that oldest human longing - self-revelation.
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside yo.—Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks On the Road(NOT Maya Angelou, NOT I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
She often spoke to falling seeds and said, Ah hope you fall on soft ground, because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she h...
Oh to be a pear tree—any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it se...
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all. Ah
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine em...
Ah done lived Grandma’s way, now Ah means tuh live mine.
You needs uh man. Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone; that she was not the first one they had ever seen. But most of the others were poor. Be...
You got tuh go there tuh know there.
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes...
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.