She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them. - Zora Neale Hurston

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn’t nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. Dat’s where Ah wuz’s s’posed to be, but Ah couldn’t recognize dat dark chile as me. So ah ast, ‘where is me? Ah don’t see me.’
… ‘Aw, aw! Ah’m colored!’
Den dey all laughed real hard. But before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like the rest.