After a while she got up from where she was and went over the little garden field entire. She was seeking confirmation of the voice and vision, and e… - Zora Neale Hurston

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell. Been set for still bait. When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Then after that some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks made them hunt for one another, but the mud is deaf and dumb. Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine.

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.