Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God

what is the meaning and feelings embodied in the quotation: “Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin’ on high, but they wasn’t no pulpit for me. Freedom found me wid a baby daughter in mah arms, so Ah said Ah’d take a broom and a cook-pot and throw up a highway through de wilderness for her” (Hurston 16)

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I think this is Nanny's vision for Janie. She wants Janie to speak the truth for colored women but only within a very narrow context: a context of post-slavery era. Nanny does not respect that Janie has her own free will to do as she wishes.

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