Their Eyes Were Watching God Characters (QUOTES): Ch. 1-17

Logan Killicks

"Aw you know Ah'm wine chop de wood fun yuh. Even if you is stingy as you can be wid me."

Nanny

"'Taint Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it's protection..."

Joe Starks

"thank yuh fuh yo compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin bout speech-makin"

Tea Cake

"Ah beat her huh show den Turners who is boss."

Mrs. Turner

"Ah ain't useter 'ssociatin' wid black folks. Mah son claims dey draw lightnin'"
"Ah jus couldn't see myself married to a black man."

Mr. Turner

"Man wife takes the time fun whatever she wants tuh do. Real strong-headed that way."

Pheoby Watson

"Ah though maybe did thing would die down and you would never know nothin bout it, but its been singing round here ever since..."

Sam Watson

"dat mule so skinny till de women us using his rib bones fun uh rub-board, and hanging things out on his hock-bones huh dry."

Lulu Moss

"She sits high, but she looks low. Dats what I say about these women runnin after young boys."

Mr. and Mrs.Washburn

"She had 4 grandchildren on the place and all of us played together."

Lige Moss

"if it was nature, nobody wouldn't have tut look out for babies touching' stoves, would they?"

Annie Tyler

"Her love affairs, affairs with boys in their late twenties for all of whom she spent her money on suits of clothes, shoes, watches...."

Who Flung

"She woke up to find ... and her money gone."

Hezekiah

"how as the best imitation of Joe that his seventeen years could make."

Walter Thomas

"If I thought he didnt know better Ah'd have mah picture took and give it uh dat mule so's he could learn better."

Matt Bonner

"Ah-ah-ah does feed 'im! Ah g-g-gived 'im uh full cup uh can very feeding.'"

Daisy Blunt

"is a walking drum tune."
"She is black and knows that white clothes look good on her."

Nunkie

"A little chunky girl took to picking a play out of Tea Cake in the fields and in the quarters."

Booker T. Washington

"He wuz a great man big man, wasn't he?"
"All he ever done was cut de monkey for white folks."

Coodemay

"You're right. Gimme it heah. Sop can gimme his cheer."

Sterrett

"Dat's all right. You fry me some fish. I kin eat stand-in up."

Amos Hicks

"Anything Ah kin do tuh help out, why you kin call on me."

Miss Nellie

"... de Mama of de chilling who come back home after her husband dead,"

Henry Pitts

"Like one day after he caught ... with a wagon load of his ribbon cane and took the cane away from ... and made him leave town."

Leafy

"So I got some with some good white people and come down here in West Florida to work and make de sun shine on both sides of de street for..."

Johnny Taylor

"In her former blindness she had known him as shiftless ..., tall and lean."
"saw ... lacerating Janie with a kiss."