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From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds — from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.
So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted d — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerge — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
...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. Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn’t represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them...
Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a lo — Zora Neale Hurston, A Life in Letters
All of the people took it up and sung it over and over until it was wrung dry, and no further innovations of tone and te — Zora Neale Hurston