Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees. - Zora Neale Hurston

If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west — that cloud field of the sky — to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.