Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ ‘bout you just what they hope done happened.”

Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?

Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.”