Highlight examples of Hurston's voice. Anyone who looked more white folkish than
herself was better than she was in her criteria,
therefore it was right that they should be
cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to
those more negroid than herself in direct
ratio to their negroness. . . . Insensate cruelty
to those you can whip, and groveling
submission to those you can't. Once having
set up her idols and built altars to them it was
inevitable that she would worship there.
- Their Eyes Were Watching God,
Zora Neale Hurston