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172 ap Zora Neale Hurston"Where us goin', Tea Cake?""De quickest place is de 'Glades. Less make it on back downdere. Dis town is full uh trouble and compellment.""But, Tea Cake, de hurricane wuz down in de 'Glades too.It'll be dead folks tuh be buried down dere too.""Yeah, Ah know, Janie, but it couldn't never be lak it 'tisheah. In de first place dey been bringin' bodies outa dere all dayso it can't be but so many mo' tuh find. And then again it neverwuz as many dere as it wuz heah. And then too, Janie, de whitefolks down dere knows us. It's bad bein' strange niggers widwhite folks. Everybody is aginst yuh.""Dat sho is de truth. De ones de white man know is nice coloredfolks. De ones he don't know is bad niggers." Janie said thisand laughed and Tea Cake laughed with her."Janie, Ah done watched it time and time again; each andevery white man think he know all de GOOD darkies already. Hedon't need tuh know no mo'. So far as he's concerned, all dem hedon't know oughta be tried and sentenced tuh six monthsbehind de United States privy house at hard smellin'.""How come de United States privy house, Tea Cake?""Well, you know Old Uncle Sam always do have de biggestand de best uh everything. So de white man figger dat anythingless than de Uncle Sam's consolidated water closet would be tooeasy. So Ah means tuh go where de white folks know me. Ah feelslak uh motherless chile round heah."They got things together and stole out of the house andaway. The next morning they were back on the muck. Theyworked hard all day fixing up a house to live in so that Tea Cakecould go out looking for something to do the next day. He gotout soon next morning more out of curiosity than eagerness towork. Stayed off all day. That night he came in beaming outwith light.