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

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

Pheoby, yuh got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. 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.