Maybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way could be, she had no idea. - Zora Neale Hurston

I accept this idea of democracy. I am all for trying it out. It must be a good thing if everybody praises it like that. If our government has been willing to go to war and sacrifice billions of dollars and millions of men for the idea I think that I ought to give the thing a trial.
The only thing that keeps me from pitching head long into this thing is the presence of numerous Jim Crow laws on the statute books of the nation. I am crazy about the idea of Democracy. I want to see how it feels.

In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt.

Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.