Oppression vs Freedom

Listen

Life on her own

Oh, now I'm done believing you

You don't know what I'm feeling

I'm more than what you made of me

I followed the voice you gave to me

But now I've gotta find my own

I don't know where I belong

But I'll be moving on

If you don't, if you won't

Listen to the song here in my heart

A melody I start but I will complete

Oh, now I'm done believing you

You don't know what I'm feeling

I'm more than what you made of me

I followed the voice you think you gave to me

But now I've gotta find my own

My own.

Listen to the song here in my heart

A melody I start but can't complete

Listen to the sound from deep within

It's only beginning to find release

Oh, the time has come for my dreams to be heard

They will not be pushed aside and turned

Into your own all 'cause you won't

Listen

Listen, I am alone at a crossroads

I'm not at home in my own home

And I've tried and tried to say what's on my mind

You should have known (oh)

Oh, now I'm done believing you

You don't know what I'm feeling

I'm more than what you made of me

I followed the voice you gave to me

But now I've gotta find my own

You should have listened, there is someone here inside

Someone I thought had died so long ago

Oh, I'm screaming now and my dreams will be heard

They will not be pushed aside or worse

Into your own all 'cause you won't

Listen

Listen, I am alone at a crossroads

I'm not at home in my own home

And I've tried and tried to say what's on mind

You should have known

"The pistol and the rifle rang out almost together. The pistol just enough after the rifle to seem its echo. Tea Cake crumpled as his bullet buried itself in the joist over Janie's head." (184)

"So Ah'm back home agin and Ah'm satisfied tub be heah. Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons." (191)

Tea Cake

"When Mrs. Turner's brother came and she brought him over to be introduced, Tea Cake had a brainstorm. Before the week was over he had whipped Janie." (147)

"...she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair ad scratching the dandruff from her scalp." (103)

Society and the path to freedom

"She sent her face to Joe's funeral, and herself went rollicking with the springtime across the world." (88)

"Before she slept that night she burnt up every one of her head rags..." (89)

Joe Stark

"'Tain't dat Ah worries over Joe's death, Phoeby. Ah jus' loves dis freedom." (93)

"Time came when she fought back with her tongue as best as she could, but it didn't do her any good. It just made Joe do more. He wanted her submission and he'd keep on fighting until her felt he had it." (71)

"Janie loved the conversation and sometimes she though up good stories on the mult, but Joe had forbidden her to indulge. He didn't want her talking after such trashy people." (53-540

Logan Killicks

"If Ah kin haul de wood head and chop it fuh yuh, look lak you oughta be able tuh tote it inside. Mah fust wife never bothered me 'bout choppin' no wood nohow." (26)

"You ain't got no particular place. It's wherever Ah need yuh. Git uh move on yuh, and dat quick." (31)

Nanny

"But Nanny belonged to that other kind that loved to deal in scraps. Here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon...and pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter's neck tight enough to choke her." (89)

Oppression vs Freedom