https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore Insert your quotes here. en-us 2020-02-28 18:48:06 UTC 2023-03-28 18:55:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4ac.png https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453754349 "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman" (Hurston 3).]]> 2020-03-03 16:32:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453754349 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453754651 "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).]]> 2020-03-03 16:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453754651 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453755254 "Story of a woman's search for self-definition in the southern sexist society" (Hurston).]]> 2020-03-03 16:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453755254 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453755768 "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).

]]> 2020-03-03 16:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453755768 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453755791 "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman."
page 25]]> 2020-03-03 16:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453755791 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756061 "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)  ]]> 2020-03-03 16:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756061 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756084 Their eyes were watching God]]> 2020-03-03 16:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756084 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756106 “So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.” ]]> 2020-03-03 16:34:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756106 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756173 2020-03-03 16:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756173 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756700 2020-03-03 16:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756700 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756945 "Fifteen dollars? I god you'se as crazy as uh betsy bug!" (Hurston, 57)]]> 2020-03-03 16:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453756945 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453757329 “Got reconciled, Matt,” lige soothed (Hurston 56)]]> 2020-03-03 16:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453757329 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453757647 “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). ]]> 2020-03-03 16:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453757647 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453758261 "The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles an hour wind had loosed his chains."]]> 2020-03-03 16:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453758261 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453758882 “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.”]]> 2020-03-03 16:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453758882 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453764612 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."]]> 2020-03-03 16:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453764612 smugsmirk1 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833394 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)

]]> 2020-03-03 18:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833394 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833727 "She tore off the kerchiedf from her head and let down her plentiful hair. The weight, the length, the glory was there" (Hurston 87).]]> 2020-03-03 18:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833727 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833758 "[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).]]> 2020-03-03 18:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833758 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833829 "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).]]> 2020-03-03 18:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833829 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833891 "Rumor, that wingless bird, had shadowed over the town." (Hurston 84)]]> 2020-03-03 18:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833891 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833923 "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)]]> 2020-03-03 18:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453833923 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453834186 “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)]]> 2020-03-03 18:09:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453834186 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453834757 "But anyway she went down the road behind him that night feeling cold"]]> 2020-03-03 18:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453834757 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453834848 "He was a glance from God." (Hurston 106) ]]> 2020-03-03 18:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453834848 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835132 “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)]]> 2020-03-03 18:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835132 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835155 "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).]]> 2020-03-03 18:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835155 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835212 "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)]]> 2020-03-03 18:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835212 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835342 "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).]]> 2020-03-03 18:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835342 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835472 "And then again Him-with-the-square-toes ... It was time to bury the dead." (Hurston 168)]]> 2020-03-03 18:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835472 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835724 2020-03-03 18:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835724 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835799 "He didn't really hate Janie, but he wanted to her to think so” (Hurston 80).]]> 2020-03-03 18:11:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835799 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835897 2020-03-03 18:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835897 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835990 "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."]]> 2020-03-03 18:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453835990 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453836672 “The kiss of his memory made pictures of love  and the light against the wall.”(Hurston 193)]]> 2020-03-03 18:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453836672 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453836875 2020-03-03 18:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453836875 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453867203 "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).]]> 2020-03-03 18:47:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453867203 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453867601 The length and texture of Black woman's hair can have an impact on her access to education, religious institutions, relationships and employment opportunities."]]> 2020-03-03 18:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453867601 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453867951 "...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)]]> 2020-03-03 18:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453867951 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453868231 "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)]]> 2020-03-03 18:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453868231 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453868872 2020-03-03 18:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453868872 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453868880 "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).]]> 2020-03-03 18:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453868880 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453868908 “So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.”]]> 2020-03-03 18:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453868908 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869008 "Ah wants things sweet with mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah..." (Hurston 24)]]> 2020-03-03 18:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869008 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869032 "'But Ah'm uh woman every inch of me, and Ah know it'"(Hurston 79).]]> 2020-03-03 18:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869032 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869523 “There is no fate in this book that is uninflected by race...”]]> 2020-03-03 18:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869523 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869527 "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).

]]> 2020-03-03 18:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869527 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869594 “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)]]> 2020-03-03 18:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869594 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869686 "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). ]]> 2020-03-03 18:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453869686 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453870947 2020-03-03 18:51:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453870947 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453871646 “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)]]> 2020-03-03 18:51:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453871646 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453889562 2020-03-03 19:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453889562 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453902700 2020-03-03 19:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453902700 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453903018 " 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).]]> 2020-03-03 19:28:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453903018 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453903890 "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) ]]> 2020-03-03 19:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453903890 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453903930 "Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me."]]> 2020-03-03 19:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453903930 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453903998 “Dat's de way it looks.  Still and all, she's her own woman.  She oughta know by now whut she wants tuh do.”]]> 2020-03-03 19:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453903998 20tewing https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453904201 2020-03-03 19:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453904201 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453904669 2020-03-03 19:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453904669 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453904691 "Janie is wherever Ah wants tuh be. Dat's de kind uh wife she is and Ah love for it.(Hurtson pg.148) ]]> 2020-03-03 19:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453904691 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453904887 “Who is boss” (Hurston 141)]]> 2020-03-03 19:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453904887 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453905372 "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)]]> 2020-03-03 19:31:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453905372 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453906513 It matters not what you've done, but what you do with what you've done for others. -Noah Centineo]]> 2020-03-03 19:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/453906513 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/454097149 "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).]]> 2020-03-04 03:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/454097149 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/454551963 To provide a decent quote]]> 2020-03-04 18:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/454551963 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/454554523 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. ]]> 2020-03-04 18:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/454554523 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/454559241 (Say it out loud)]]> 2020-03-04 18:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/454559241 https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/454585628 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.]]> 2020-03-04 18:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ada_veijola/quotesbefore/wish/454585628