Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain
Zora Neale HurstonPlease 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 HurstonEverytime 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 HurstonThe sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
Zora Neale HurstonTag: imagery
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
Zora Neale HurstonThe spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
Zora Neale Hurston...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.
Zora Neale HurstonWhen 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 HurstonHer 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.
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