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Zora Neale Hurston implies that Janie believed to be be a woman meant to not be with a man in the following quote; “Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman”(25). After Janie had tried having relationship after relationship with various men, she realized that in order to figure out who she was as a woman, she needed to stop depending on men for fulfillment.

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(Say it out loud)

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In expressing her love for Tea Cake, Janie felt as if “her soul crawled out from its hiding place” (Hurston 128). Unlike her love for her former husbands, Janie feels more open and comfortable in her relationship with Tea Cake.

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"But I will say that there are today a surprising number of white people who are getting great satisfaction out of these younger Negro writers because they think it is going to stop agitation of the Negro question" (Napier 20).

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It matters not what you've done, but what you do with what you've done for others. -Noah Centineo

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"Janie is wherever Ah wants tuh be. Dat's de kind uh wife she is and Ah love for it.(Hurtson pg.148)

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"Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me."

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“Who is boss” (Hurston 141)

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“Dat's de way it looks.  Still and all, she's her own woman.  She oughta know by now whut she wants tuh do.”

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"It's hard for me to understand what you mean, de way you tell it. And then again I'm hard of understanding at times" (Hurston 7).

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"It's hard for me to understand what you mean, de way you tell it. And then again I'm hard of understanding at times" (Hurston 7).

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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 estatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was marriage!" (Huston 11)

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"They'd look with envy at the things and pity the man that owned them. When he sat in judgment it would be the same." (Hurston 80)

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" Yo' mama don't wear no Draws Ah seen her when she took 'em Off She soaked 'em in alcoHol She sold 'em tuh de Santy Claus He told her 'twas aginst de Law to wear dem dirty draws" (Hurston 157).

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"the time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door."(Hurston, 159)

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"the time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door."(Hurston, 159)

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“They passed a dead man in a sitting position on a hummock, entirely surrounded by wild animals and snakes. Common danger made common friends. Nothing sought a conquest over the other.” (Hurston 164)

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"So 'tain't no use in me telling you somethin' unless Ah give you de understandin' to go 'long wid it. Unless you see de fur, a mink skin ain't no different from a coon hide" (Hurston 7).

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"Ah wants things sweet with mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah..." (Hurston 24)

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"He had hoped that he had hurt her as she had hurt him" (Hurston 31).

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"He had hoped that he had hurt her as she had hurt him" (Hurston 31).

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“So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.”

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"'But Ah'm uh woman every inch of me, and Ah know it'"(Hurston 79).

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“What both of these readings often downplay, though is the novel’s deliberate and profound ambivalence towards Janie’s chances, in her time and place, for finding a husband equipped to consistently encourage her self actualization

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“What both of these readings often downplay, though is the novel’s deliberate and profound ambivalence towards Janie’s chances, in her time and place, for finding a husband equipped to consistently encourage her self actualization

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"Janie, if you think Ah aims to tole you off and make a dog outa you, youse wrong. Ah wants to make a wife outa you." (Hurston 30)

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"He saw a cow swimming slowly towards the fill in an oblique line. A massive built dog was sitting on her shoulders and shivering and growling." (Hurston, 165).

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“There is no fate in this book that is uninflected by race...”

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"...Hurston envisions a protagonist whose eventual attainment of folklore and blues literacy allows her to participate efficiently in rhetorical performances usually reserved for men." (Noyes)

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“The men noticed her firm buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume; then her pugnacious breasts trying to bore holes in her shirt” (Hurston 2)

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The length and texture of Black woman's hair can have an impact on her access to education, religious institutions, relationships and employment opportunities."

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"Simply labeling the novel a story of self-discovery would be an injustice to the compelling themes of partnership and community participation that are the impetus behind Janie's self-actualization; and I suggest that Janie's ultimate evolution of self is only possible because of a strong, healthy relationship she shares with Tea Cake. Their mutual love, trust, and even occasional jealousies foster the sense of self-worth that is necessary for full self-realization" (Knudsen,  pp. 215).

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"Through tracing Janie's negotiation of these sites, we may better understand her movement from a woman silenced...to a character who is able to exercise her strong, womanly, voice" (Haurykiewicz).

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“The kiss of his memory made pictures of love  and the light against the wall.”(Hurston 193)

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"Janie spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree ... From barren brown stems to glistening leaf buds; from the leaf buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously."

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"Janie spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree ... From barren brown stems to glistening leaf buds; from the leaf buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously."

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"Janie spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree ... From barren brown stems to glistening leaf buds; from the leaf buds to snowy virginity of bloom. It stirred her tremendously."

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"And then again Him-with-the-square-toes ... It was time to bury the dead." (Hurston 168)

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"Janie pulled back a long time because he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke for far horizon"(Hurston 29)

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"Janie pulled back a long time becuase he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees but he spoke for a far horizon. He spoke for change..."

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"Janie pulled back a long time becuase he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees but he spoke for a far horizon. He spoke for change..."

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"Janie pulled back a long time becuase he did not represent sun-up and pollen and blooming trees but he spoke for a far horizon. He spoke for change..."

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"He was a glance from God." (Hurston 106)

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"But anyway she went down the road behind him that night feeling cold"

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"Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memort made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was Peace." (Hurston 193)

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"Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so"(Hurston 21).

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"He didn't really hate Janie, but he wanted to her to think so” (Hurston 80).

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"She tore off the kerchiedf from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there" (Hurston 87).

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"Rumor, that wingless bird, had shadowed over the town." (Hurston 84)

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"Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes it's shape from de shores it meets, and it's different with every shore” (Hurston, 191).

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“So she was home by herself one afternoon when she saw a band of Seminoles passing by. The men walking in front and the laden, stolid women following them like burros.”(Hurston 154)

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"The wind came back with triple fury, and put out the light for the last time. They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eues straining against crude walls and their souls asking is He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God" (Hurston 160).

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And the cruel deceit of Jamie! Making all that show of humbleness and scorning him all the time! Laughing at him, and now putting the town up to do the same. Joe Starks didn't know the words for all this, but he knew the feeling. So he struck Janie with all his might and drove her from the store. (Hurston 80)

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“So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon it's amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day“ Hurston (99)

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"The store itself was pleasant if only she didn't have to sell things. When the people sat around on the proch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to."

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"[Janie] got up without a word and went for the shoes. A little war of defense for helpless things was going on inside her" (Hurston 57).

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He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt self-crushing love. So her soul cralwed out from its hiding place."

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"No suh! Not mah king. You kin take another one, but not dat one."(Hurston 96)

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"No suh! Not mah king. You kin take another one, but not dat one."(Hurston 96)

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“Dem meatskins is got tuh rattle tuh make out they’s alive. Let ‘em consolate theyselves with talk. ‘Course, talkin’ don’t amount tuh uh hill uh beans when yuh can’t do nothin’ else.”

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“Got reconciled, Matt,” lige soothed (Hurston 56)

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“It’s an important time in our cultural history, and here we have the story of Cudjo Lewis to remind us of what happens when we lose sight of our humanity” (Alter).

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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."(Hurston 1)

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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."(Hurston 1)

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Their eyes were watching God

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"These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skin. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human."
(Hurston 1)

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"She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman."
page 25

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"The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles an hour wind had loosed his chains."

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"She felt honored by Janie's acquaintance and she quickly forgave and forgot snubs in order to keep it. Anyone who looked more white folk-ish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness. Like the pecking-order in a chicken yard. Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can't. [ . . . ] Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood" (Hurston 144).

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"Story of a woman's search for self-definition in the southern sexist society" (Hurston).

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"Fifteen dollars? I god you'se as crazy as uh betsy bug!" (Hurston, 57)

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“So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”

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"She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman" (Hurston 3).

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"She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of 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. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid" (Hurston 11).