Status Updates From Their Eyes Were Watching God

Two things every body's got to do for there selves: 1. they got to go to God and 2. They got to find out about LIVING for themselves

"Now Phoeby, don't feel too mean with the rest of them cause they parched up from not knowing things. Them meat skins have GOTS to rattle to make out that they're alive."

"Love is like the sea, it's a movin' thing. but still and all. it takes it's shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."

"Every time I see a patch of roses or something over sportin' themselves, making out their pretty. i tell em' "I want you to see my Janie sometimes. You must let the flowers see you some time. Hear Janie?

"Their eyes straining against crude walls and their souls asking if he meant to measure their puny might against his. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God."

"Her and that whittled down husband of hers. And that son! He's just a dirty trick her womb played on her!" -T-Cake.
He was a vanishing looking kind of a man, as if there used to be parts of him that stuck out individually, but now he hadn't a thing about him that wasn't dwindled and blurred. Just like, he had been sand papered down to a long, oval mass."