Their Eyes Were Watching God
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You can find Most Liked Their Eyes Were Watching God quotes, most liked Their Eyes Were Watching God book quotes, the most impressive sentences and paragraphs on 1000Kitap.“Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. 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."
A man is up against a hard game when he must die to beat it.
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"Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old. Wouldn't have found it out then, but a man come long takin' pictures and without askin' anybody, Shelby, dat was de oldest boy, he told him to take us. Round a week later de man brought de picture for Mis' Washburn to see and pay him which she did, then give us all a good lickin'.
"So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn't nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. Dat's where Ah wuz s'posed to be, but Ah couldn't recognize dat dark chile as me. So Ah ast, 'where is me? Ah don't see me.'
"Everybody laughed, even Mr. Washburn. Miss Nellie, de Mama of de chillun who come back home after her husband dead, she pointed to de dark one and said, `Dat's you, Alphabet, don't you know yo' ownself?'
"Dey all useter call me Alphabet 'cause so many people had done named me different names. Ah looked at de picture a long time and seen it was mah dress and mah hair so Ah said:
"`Aw, aw! Ah'm colored!'
"Den dey all laughed real hard. But before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like de rest.
It is so easy to be hopeful in the day time when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands.
“Some folks never was meant to be loved and he’s one of’em.”
“Well, if he do all dat whut you come in heah wid uh face long as mah arm for?”
“‘Cause you told me Ah must gointer love him, and, and Ah don’t. Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it.”