Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered

55/260think Ah wants and den he totes it inside de kitchen for me. Keepsboth water buckets full.”“Humph! don’t ’spect all dat tuh keep up. He ain’t kissin’ yo’ moufwhen he carry on over yuh lak dat. He’s kissin’ yo’ foot and ’tain’t in uhman tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin’ is on uh equal and dat’s naturalbut when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.”“Yes’m.”“Well, if he do all dat whut you come in heah wid uh face long asmah arm for?”“ ’Cause you told me Ah mus gointer love him, and, and Ah don’t.Maybe if somebody was to tell me how, Ah could do it.”“You come heah wid yo’ mouf full uh foolishness on uh busy day.Heah you got uh prop tuh lean on all yo’ bawn days, and big protection,and everybody got tuh tip dey hat tuh you and call you Mis’ Killicks,and you come worryin’ me ’bout love.”“But Nanny, Ah wants to want him sometimes. Ah don’t want himto do all de wantin’.”“If you don’t want him, you sho oughta. Heah you is wid de onliestorgan in town, amongst colored folks, in yo’ parlor. Got a housebought and paid for and sixty acres uh land right on de big roadand…Lawd have mussy! Dat’s de very prong all us black women gitshung on. Dis love! Dat’s just whut’s got us uh pullin’ and uh haulin’and sweatin’ and doin’ from can’t see in de mornin’ till can’t see atnight. Dat’s how come de ole folks say dat bein’ uh fool don’t killnobody. It jus’ makes you sweat. Ah betcha you wants some dressedup dude dat got to look at de sole of his shoe everytime he cross destreet tuh see whether he got enough leather dere tuh make it across.