Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

Zora Neale Hurston

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Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Everytime Ah see uh patch uh roses uh somethin' oversportin' theyselves makin' out they pretty, Ah tell 'em 'Ah want yuh tuh see mah Janie sometime.' You must let de flowers see yuh sometimes, heah, Janie?

Zora Neale Hurston

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The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.

Zora Neale Hurston


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The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

Zora Neale Hurston


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...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.

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When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.

Zora Neale Hurston


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Her resolutions against Jim Meserve were just like the lightning-bugs holding a convention. They met at night and made scorning speeches against the sun and swore to do away with it and light up the world themselves. But the sun came up next morning and they all went under the leaves and owned up that the sun was boss-man in the world.

Zora Neale Hurston


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