Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
("Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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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 saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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