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Nanny refers to herself as a "cracked plate" because she is getting old, and because of her history and the knowledge she has gained throughout her many years.

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"And Ah can't die easy thinkin' maybe de menfolks white or black is makin' a spit cup outa you: Have some sympathy fuh me. Put me down easy, Janie, Ah'm a cracked plate."

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Janie and Mrs. Turner were talking about what Booker T. Washington did and how he changed history.

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"Booker T.? He wuz a great big man, wasn't he?" (pg.142)

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Janie was silent, she had nothing left to say when she returned to Eatonville after everything that happened to her.

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"Janie ate heartily and said nothing. The varicolored cloud dust that the sun had stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees." (pg.3)

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When the women see Janie they start to judge her and talk about her, none of them can stay silence and mind their own business but they all have something to say about Janie

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"They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song." (pg.2)

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Some people follow the crowd and do average things, but if someone is sailing the horizon they're chasing their dreams and doing their own things

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"For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon." (pg.1)

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Janie saw Joe Starks as someone who spoke up for change in the far future.

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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."

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Janie couldn't stop herself from thinking about Tea Cake, she compares him too the the love thoughts of a woman, and like the blossoming of the pear tree.

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"He could be a bee to a blossom-a pear tree blossom in the spring." (pg.106)

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When Janie was laying under the pear tree she was watching it blossom and all of the little details of the tree which felt like love.

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"She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees...So this was a marraige!" (pg.11)

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The storm was getting really bad and Tea Fake started to realize that they are so strong they are like living things and people underestimate the power of a storm.

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"As soon as Tea Cake went out pushing wind in front of him, he saw that the wind and water have even life to lots of things that folk think of as dead and given death to so much that had been living things." (pg. 160)

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The hurricane was getting worse, and they were all waiting to see if God would make it better for them.

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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...They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God." (pg. 160)

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Mrs. Turner was racist towards African Americans and she hated talking about them.

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"Her disfavorite subject was Negroes." (pg.140)

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Mrs. Turner is saying she can't stand black people and she knows why white people discriminate against them.

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"You'se different from me. Ah can't stand black niggers. Ah don't blame de white folks from hatin' 'em cause Ah can't stand 'em myself." (pg.141)

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Joe saw Janie as a prize and her hair was supposed to be for his pleasure only.

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"That night he ordered Janie to tie up her hair around the store. That was all. She was there in the store for him to look at, not those others." (pg.55)

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Janie now realized that being married, doesn't mean you experience true love.

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

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When Joe says this, it shows power because he has control over Janie and he believes her place is in the home. Joe feels as if he is superior to Janie because he is a man and he shows he's in charge by how he makes Janie obey him.

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"Thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but my wife don't know nothin' 'bout no speech-making'. Ah never married her for nothin' las dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home." (pg.43)

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Joe Starks was a powerful man and even his looks were intimidating to the townspeople, they all respected him.

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"There was something about Joe Starks that cowed the town...He had a bow-down comment in his face, and every step he took made the thing more tangible." (pg.47)

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Janie didn't want to feel like she was only known as the mayors wife, but she knew she was more than that so she tried to show that she was a part of the town on her own.

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"The wife of the Mayor was not just another roman as she had supposed. She slept with authority and so she was part of in in the town mind." (pg.46)

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Janie wasn't depending on Joe to change her life, she was prepared and ready for what's to come.

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"Janie hurried out of the front gate and turned south. Even if Joe was not there waiting for her, the changes bound to do her good." (pg.32)

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Everyone in the community went to the mayors funeral and honored him.

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"Joes funeral was the first thing Orange County had ever seen with Negro eyes...The Little Emperor of the cross-roads was leaving Orange County as he had come" (pg.88)

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Love is always changing, and it's different for everyone who experiences it.

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"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." (pg.191)

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Nanny is saying that the Lord will provide for Janie and even though she doesn't want some things, God will make things right.

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"De Lawd will provide. He know Ah done bore de burden in de head uh de day." (pg.13)

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They believed in God and trusted that he would create a new life for them.

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"She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up." (pg. 25)

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Tea Cake took the wrong road and ended up in Janie's store, this is fate because if Tea Cake made it to that game, he wouldn't have met Janie and they wouldn't have fallen in love.

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"Dat's cause Ah'm dumb. Ah got de thing all mixed up. Ah thought de game was gointuh be out at Hungerford. So Ah got uh ride tuh where dis road turns off from de Dixie Highway and walked over here and then Ah find out de game is in Winter Park." (pg. 95)

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When Janie meets Tea Cake, they have an instant connection and she feels like she's known him her whole life which is a sign of fate because they started enjoying each others company in a short period of time.

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Tea Cake wasn't strange. Seemed as if she had known him all her life.

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Janie finally let her hair down and it signified her becoming a woman

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The lamp brought everyone in the community together because they all wanted to witness a new tradition of it being lit

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"The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place. She tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there." (pg.87)

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By five o'clock the town was full of every kind of a vehicle and swarming with people. They wanted to see that lamp lit at dusk. Near the time, Joe assembled everybody in the street before the store and made a speech." (pg.45)