They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
("Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.Zora Neale Hurston
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
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Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
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Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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No man may make another free.
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