"Their Eyes Were Watching God" Quotes
A woman's journey to find love and self-fulfillment in the face of societal expectations and personal desires.
classics | 245 pages | Published in 2020
Quotes
She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her.
Two things everybody's got to do for themselves. They got to go to God, and they got to find out about livin' for themselves.
Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His business.
Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree, soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her.
She called in her soul to come and see.
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
The beginning of things, of a world, the making of a world. The world was to see and heave. But she wasn't having any part of it.
She was borned in slavery time when folks, dat is black folks, didn't sit down anytime dey felt lak it.
It's a known fact you got to go there to know there.
