"When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking."
Zora Neale Hurston was an American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.