Harp and Gully’s crew had even made a stupid music video, rapping about how they were going to shoot up folks they had beef with. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The city fathers bragged about the way our people and white folks were working “side by side.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lots of folks said they’d sure like to own one, but it was after five o’clock before anybody actually talked business. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The folks of Green Lake were afraid to take chances. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The question, of course, was: Why were these statuettes so popular with the local folk? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to look sad and said, “No, ma’am, folks waren’t too much in the mood for talking.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He remembered never-ending flour fogs in the country marketplace, fogs that folks compared to the inside of a crazy woman’s head. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They tune in to newscasts, concerts, operas, national choirs, folk shows, a dozen children in a semicircle on the furniture, Frau Elena among them, hardly more substantial than a child herself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This was the one spot in the city where twenty thousand folk could gather. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Thomas told me, “Bud, I know you can see your granddad has troubles getting along with most folks, right?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

His women folk gave him money and he got a room and a new job over in Jersey. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, my mama had to work extra for her family. They’re having a big to-do party tonight and you know white folks can’t barely do for themselves,” he says, laughing to himself. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“What do you expect your folks are going to say?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was no place to sit with the benches stacked against the walls, so the castle folk stood in small groups, not daring to speak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I'm not chasing raccoons around a trailer park barefoot, folks. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Excellent stories for this type of activity include folk tales or fairy tales from around the world. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Ma was trembling something fierce, but she says, “Yes, sir, oh, thank you, sir, you’s the saint folks say you is. It was Jesus hisself what was protecting you from them bullets! Hallelujah!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

To feed Norte Chico’s burgeoning population, Shady discovered, the valley folk learned how to irrigate the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But MoMo was twenty going on thirty; his party was going to be jam-packed with a bunch of folks who broke out their best fits to show off. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Same place as last time. It’s moving slowly, though, and veering east a bit. The cottage will probably be fine, unless the wind changes. Still, I’m worried sick about the folks over that way...” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Lots of folks with unfinished business that think sticking around is going to help them fix it,” Aunt Rose said. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"Grim folk, by the look of them," she said as she eyed the long row of granite Starks on their stone thrones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Bailey played on the country folks’ need for diversion. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking to the same publication, Bobby Rush said, “He went to Harvard and became an educated fool. We’re not impressed with these folks with these eastern elite degrees.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The cap’n worked o’er the barber and all the folks ahead of us for haircuts pretty good. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I laughed the way white folks always do when they tell something funny a colored person said. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Dean's mum got home from the old folks home on the Malvern road. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

As we got to going faster, a grand cloud of dust rose behind us and folks ran out of their houses to watch us go by. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And even though folks around here was cool with Needles, the freak-outs were the only times people really looked at him like he was, well, crazy. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“But then you dropped that marble, and folks looked at you instead.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Pookie, who came along after the shooting and saw that it was Mack, went and told his folks. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a badge of honor! New folks are big news here. I’ll be a celebrity for a month.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“We sell homes here. Tiny ones. There’s one out back that folks can tour.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The free folk were no different than the men of the Night’s Watch; some were clean, some dirty, but most were clean at times and dirty at other times. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I know that to some folks, my clothes might look kind of raggedy, but I do the best I can. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and I could have a really beautiful relationship, so why are the old folks poking their noses into our business again? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He plays mostly folk songs and the others hum with him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder you hear about rich folks going to restaurants once a week, this was great! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Bran and Rickon have fled," he told the castle folk, watching their eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Morina laughs and says into the camera, “A house is made of wood, folks, but a home is made of dreams. You heard it here.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Like as not, all else her folks would have was fried fatback, cream gravy, and corn pone. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Odysseus now addressed Alkinoos: “O majesty, model of all your folk, your promise was to show me peerless dancers; here is the promise kept. I am all wonder.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was here the other day, I was so sure that if I had looked up, I would see the charmed folk like I used to. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Farm ranchers, most of them, they are outdoor folk of very varied stock—German, Irish, Norwegian, Mexican, Japanese. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard of such folks, deviants who believe that some kind of enlightenment exists in watching the moment a man becomes a monster. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Some Hamptonites still recalled how the strange folks at the laboratory saved the town from the economic despair of Prohibition. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

That’s what folks were calling Mr. Stone—the Kingfish of Key West—’cause he was so bossy. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Brownsville and East New York, the sidewalks filled up again, the bicycles came back, and old folks reappeared on the stoops. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Black folk didn’t like it much, but the white folks...” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nasty white folks is about the nastiest things they is. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that they were following old folk traditions meant people in Trebon were more superstitious than I would usually expect. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So many people, some folks had to stand. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

There dwelt a hardy folk between the mountains and the sea. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I think it’s that smell that makes so many folks fall asleep in the library. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The men—good Cajun folk—give us a jug of water and PowerBars. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The trick is not to think of them as regular folks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“See, you’re not dirty at all, but I thought maybe you knew some folks who were.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were the usual band of close relatives, and then some new ones, because folks had gotten married. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But my folks' relationship was pretty much over. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"Way down in Egypt's land. Tell dat ole Pharaoh to let ma colored folks sing! I'm for the rights of the colored brother to sing!" he shouted belligerently. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My folks were from Baltimore and South Carolina. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But I had to do something as it looked like my folks were settling in for the afternoon. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, probably about once a week or so, when food got low, my folks would send me over to the Coals' farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks saw bear, but I never got any. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his wide face, gray goatee, and merry smile, he resembled, for the moment, an aging folk singer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You know folks will be talking about me losing my job. Try to ignore it and don’t get smart, okay?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was this time when me and Chris were like seven, and my folks were trying to have some alone time for Valentine’s Day. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Its constituents are men and women and children of all ages, folks on the dodge from collection agencies, relationships gone sour, the law or the IRS, Ohio winters, the middle- class grind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t bring you up here to watch them folks get harassed and stripped from their homes. I brought you here ’cause you asked how I knew. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Little town like this, that’s what keeps things on an even keel. These folk will carry a grudge for fifty years about what their Tom said about our Kari.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Some folks feel that way about their religion." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As another stack of two-by-fours landed by her porch, Stella couldn’t help but think about how folks had come together when Spoon Man showed up. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I reckon us and Mr. Izzie, Cold Sassy’s only Jew, were the only folks in town who never ate a piece of fried ham for breakfast. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I saved your son from Melisandre, and now I am about to save four thousand of your free folk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This book is a record of all the afternoons the two of us spent in the glade together with the charmed folk. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She always said if a house looked neat, folks didn’t notice cobwebs in the corners or dust on the mantelpiece. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Folks sometimes do ugly things, Hiram, but that don’t necessarily make them evil. A lot of good folks just make stupid decisions or get themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then, if the new-free folks say they want to live in the Settlement, everyone decides where they’ll stay till they get their own place and get comforted ’bout being ’mongst us. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folks is frustrated in this town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

‘And I for the folk of the Great Wood,’ said Legolas, ‘and for the love of the Lord of the White Tree.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The whites I’d known loved to rub shoulders publicly with black folks in the after-hours clubs and speakeasies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And unless folks didn’t want his hands on their foodstuff, he’d soon be weighing up sugar and flour and drawing molasses out of the barrel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“What kind of squirrel sits out in the open like that with folks all round him? That squirrel wouldn’t last two seconds in Arkansas, I’da picked him off easy as nothing.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scott looked up to make sure the grown folks weren’t around and said, “You really run away from home?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

To the folks in Lacks Town, she was just simple. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Others were happy, trying to knock off the hats of living folks who passed by. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Hit shore is a wonder how young folks ketch on. Miss Love, now, she thinks she could drive a car.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“This is the greatest place. I’m really glad my folks bought it.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d grumbled a bit earlier about the German folks from the Lutheran church playing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You ever come when those big-time writers are here for their meetings? Once there was so many folks upstairs, Miss Kimble came downstairs to get extra chairs.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“It was white folks, some of them white folks you like so much that tried to cut your brother’s throat.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I try to be nice to everyone, and polite to old folks, people over twenty or thirty. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

For the sound of traditional Western folk music, look for collections of folk music from England or Australia, sea shanties, or American cowboy songs. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take too long to shake hands with folks after the service. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Not just the Ku Klux Klan but the regular white folks in town would’ve killed him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will need every cart and wagon made ready to transport the free folk to their new homes. Othell, you shall see to that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You figure because you’re from Japanese folks nobody will believe you anyway.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lights went out in house and hamlet as they came, and doors were shut, and folk that were afield cried in terror and ran wild like hunted deer. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mean folk shall rule the last remnant of the Kings of Men, lurking in the hills until all are hounded out.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know why you care so much about the troubles of rich folk,” Ma Charles scolded. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“White folks can't help their ignorance. And it's our task to learn to cope with it, if we want to stay alive and keep our peace of mind.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad you’re safe. You know, if you’d talk to a few more folks, they might have been able to tell me where you were.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She told Quincy that she tried hard to understand that peoples been mean to her and that Quincy always spected the worst out of folks. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“No biggie— just a note for the permanent file, saying you folks appreciated me helping out your boy. Something along those lines.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sixteenth birthday I had dinner with my folks at the restaurant they met at. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I kept thinking about what Bertha had said about judging folks for how they fix their mistakes, and I knew I wasn’t doing a very good job of fixing mine. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s an old folk song. Charlie didn’t have enough money to get off the T.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The folks at Sears keep their files in such good order that I bet I could start from nothing and find whatever I needed in fifteen minutes or less. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the one. I know some folk who got stronger conjure than I do. Might be they can save our pilot if we can get her there in time.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Them white folks sure scared of us, though.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

With most folks, I would figure that that is that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strange voices echoed down the yards, and free folk were coming and going along icy paths that had only known the black boots of crows for years. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lots of folk around here call Mrs. Malloy and Mrs. Peck Detroit royalty. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Rough Guide series of books and recordings includes some that examine modern folk artists. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“That civilized white folk wore nice dresses and hats and gathered to watch a white man hang a black man from a tree.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That’s a whole night of folk dancing, just like this, at colleges all over the country. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

There was a new kind of hush as folks took their first bites and savored the sweet fluffiness of it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Anyone who claims that the older folks have a more difficult time in the Annex doesn’t realize that the problems have a far greater impact on us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Finally he said, shyly: “You folks from New York City?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Never wanted to feel the stares of folks who heard my leg tapping its cotton-picking tune. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘Then come, and let your brother go with us, and some other of your folk who is most swift! For we have need of speed greater than any wind, outmatching the wings of the Nazgûl.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You always bring the car out and wait at the side door for the folks. Let’s see. You say you’re driving Miss Dalton tonight?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But how could they know up-to-date folks was spitting in flowery little things like that? Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“But yes, my lord, him as well. We cannot pick and choose amongst the free folk, saying this one may pass, this one may not. Peace means peace for all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had been “Little Miss Magnolia” of Aurora County when she was six years old, and she was the most beautiful homecoming queen Snapfinger High School had ever seen—folks still said so. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ac-cording to what I seen in this here movie most the folks in Flint is Chinese. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were too few to defend themselves even against that unwarlikc folk, and the Lhazareen had small reason to love them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were other folks sitting on the edge of the stage, and Moss watched as Esperanza hovered nearby. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You can replant that whole field of corn, tend to it, harvest it, and turn it into food for poor old folks.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sooner he went on, taking his evil destiny with him, the better for these folk. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But now so many folks keep asking me why, at 101 years old, I walk just fine without a cane, I eat what I please, I have all my teeth, and my memory is fine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once the ’gator man got me roped good, that preacher tell ’em this here’s Canada and folks is free and he taking me to Buxton and he gunn kill anyone what try to stop him. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Although these modern tunes do not fit the traditional definition, they are also called folk music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He had lain on a bed in the infirmary, in pain, unseeing, his memory slow to return, and half listened to the conversations of the gentle folk who took care of him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He was the person folks called for advice, prayer, and practical help when someone got into trouble or ended up in jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, yes and no. ‘Egyptians’ makes me think of the folk who live there now. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Shad says that some folks took that news real hard; it kind of let the wind out of their sails all of a sudden.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their kite shields all bore the same device: a crystal sword shining in the darkness, the ancient badge of those the small- folk called Swords. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Horsemen, riding very swiftly, had indeed been sighted: still far behind but gaining on the Orcs, gaining on them like a tide over the flats on folk straying in a quicksand. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"I don't really know, sir. Quite a few folks out this way don't, though. I guess they're too ignorant. They're not interested." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks say Mrs. Brown’s touched in the head, but ’cept for scaring me in the woods at night she treats me real kind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

All I see is a crowd of lazy, dawdling dead folk enjoying themselves and not helping the war effort. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You ever have a secret so big that you were afraid to be friends with folks, to let them get close? Because if they found out about that secret it could be bad for everyone?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Some of the Rough Guide series focus on specific folk or traditional musics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Pa walked back over to the family and said the same thing we say to all the new-free folks when they first get to Buxton. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Smiley and Lee Roy sat primly with their folks, acting like they didn’t even know us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Got the old folks bewitched, don’t you?” said Lolly. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“She said...she was surprised Harison lasted long enough for me to fetch her. I guess with wounds like that, most folks bleed out in a few minutes. She said it was mighty peculiar.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I was in the tavern when they came in with the news. They were gatherin’ folk with wagons so they could go get the bodies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So they stood there with the folks backed off with hand-kerchiefs to their faces, until in a minute the girl came up with that newspaper package. As I Lay Dying 1930-10-06T00:00:00Z

If you live in a Western culture, it can be difficult to find recordings of non-Western folk music, since most Western listeners do not have a taste for it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There are all kinds of folks in line, too, like moms with their kids and elderly people on walkers. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Forgive us, folks,” he said in his funeral director’s voice, speaking above the wail. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That gun could always make folks stand away and think twice before bothering him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

What was interesting about this little insight was that I could see the army had a point, but it still seemed like a sneaky trick to perpetrate on all those simple country folk. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the city walls they camped with their vast herds, raising palaces of woven grass, eating everything in sight, and making the good folk of Pentos more anxious with every passing day. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“This is what comes of getting too close to Atur, I suppose. Tomorrow we’ll head south: greener pastures, kinder folk, prettier women.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I reckon I might give it a whirl. See you folks upstairs.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

After all those years of riding the rails, 1 guess it was my time to lay down track for other folks to use. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes folks gave us a tip—a cookie or a piece of homemade candy. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to that psychology degree, my brother can read folks like a pro. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure she’s helping the people who are truly needy, folks sick with fever who can’t care for themselves. We shouldn’t be greedy.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most folks were surprised and more than a little curious when Mrs. Larkin stayed behind for the quarantine instead of leaving town with the rest of the people of means. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Which of the village folk had aided him? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Where are your folks? At the house?” he asked. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“So can the boy, now that he’s growing up. Your face looks like maybe you had enough white folks’ meanness for a while.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever it is, it’s either really awesome or freaking monstrous, that’s how these folks are running. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Better yet, folks could spend an afternoon dodging and diving in the icy waters of Lake Michigan, at one of the eight beaches that lined the city's eastern shore. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And she was right, once that gun commenced shooting, all the folks in this town would come running. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The dead may have risen and we might have been living in the end times of Revelation, but folks still wanted their tobacco. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I could see those folks on the fire escape tumbling to the ground in a rush of screams and cracking metal. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Some have to, the names their folks gave them are such dogs. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to me, Katherine hasn't said a word during our entire exchange, just kept watch over the white folks eating their meals. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Then on Saturday night the colored would make money for their church by putting on a show for us white folks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

For almost a year now, folks have been using Jimmy’s as a party spot, kinda like they do Magnolia Ave on Friday nights. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Who are all these other fine folks you brought with you?” he asked. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

‘It is long indeed since any of my folk have looked on it, yet still we remember it in song. Tell me of these havens as we walk.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It empowered and spread forms of music that had developed without notation, making available to a mass audience folk and ethnic music that had up to then been confined to local communities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then I couldn’t help asking, “And why didn’t your folks make some provision for her?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Sure they was—as long as you people was fighting for 'em. But the minute y'all stopped, they started throwing folks out on the street." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can speak, for example, of European classical or the European-American folk tradition, as opposed to Indian Classical50 , Japanese folk, or African-American musics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I knew those white folks was wrong and someday it would be my turn to read too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s so tall, folks gotta look up to see his face. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

At the pass office I was interrogated by a young black man in a checkered suit who appeared to enjoy the job he was doing: putting his own folks through hell. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Extremely. Something had to be done, so people like myself created places where young peculiars could live apart from common folk—physically and temporally isolated enclaves like this one, of which I am enormously proud.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And not just the pretty-for-a-dark-skinned-girl comments I sometimes get from the folks at church. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But laughing dies off pretty quick when you’re by yourself, especially if it’s way past your whipping and your folks still aren’t home yet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Nessie sets a good pace out of town, and we pass other families in their wagons as well as a few folks running. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Used to be a notion that witches killed folks with the blood from this root,” Mr. Chris said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I miss my books and my folks and my friends. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I had mentioned the issuance of the stamp to others, the news simply stopped folks in their tracks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the rise of recording pushed aside traditional music, some musicians made a point of recording traditional folk songs, so they would not be lost altogether. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I feel like it’s my duty. And I owe it to your folks. Hell, I owe it to you.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Some folks forget where they came from soon as they step off the train at Union Station. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

But some folks are absolutely convinced he is, like, this Sicilian accountant who testified against the Mafia, and had to be hidden by that secret Witness Belocation Program. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most folks got quiet like they were in church. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Alyce did not know, so she hid the boy in the chicken house and went about the village asking folks what was the king’s name. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sheriff didn’t reply, she said, “Oh, I see. He’s only a danger to us, not to white folk.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

A lot of folks think Momma don’t have all her marbles. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gerald thought it was odd that of the four of them, Andy, who had the worst grades, was the only one who had been given a car by his folks. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some she had invented to entertain her children; others were old folk tales told to her by her own mother and her grandmother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You folks waiting for a kid in a wheelchair?” he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

One of the women adds, “Some of those folks will kill their own kind if they stand for justice. Can you believe that?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His songs were meant to sound like up-market folk songs: immediately memorable, lyrically easily understandable and relatively predictable in shape. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It’s funny, just when you think you caint admire your folks no more than you already do, something like that happens and lets you know you’re wrong. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Some folks might not give you the choice,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ordinary folks just need to be able to fill the gas tank without it breaking them. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if I’ll ever see the charmed folk again, at least not the way I once did. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Around me, folks are screaming and looting and smashing glass and all kinds of craziness. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell you where that peculiarity come from ’cause don’t neither Pap nor Ma get bothered by being around folk that’s smelling ripish. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The temperance folks had given America Prohibition, and had thrown in a ban on gambling while they were at it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lordy, and folks think me and Biddy the ones that be ‘challenged.’ Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

How it is, the way folks feel, he don’t stand no chance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’d think folks was living longer, but the fact of it was, they was just being put out faster. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The black folks found her to be awkward. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly everyone was colored, and the few white folks who were gathered in amongst the group seemed oblivious to the differences of their skin. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The colored folks ain’t all that different from the white working-class folks, since Tuesday is payday for the cowpokes as well and they're all up in the saloon spending what little they got. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He was walking away when I said, “But Grandpa, Miss Love’s got the horse. She’s so excited about the horse. She don’t even care what folks say anymore.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even with the big stove that sits in the middle, black and ugly with who knows how many years of other folks’ grease and dirt cooked in, it still feels like a home. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Someone’s playing a guitar on the steps of Low Library, a folk song, but nobody’s listening. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the first Sunday we’ve been here in a while, and the only thing church folks love more than talking about people is talking about people who haven’t been to church. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was inhabited by people and dwarfs, by gnomes and sylvans and other, even queerer, folk. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa said later that folks just came to see how Loma would take the news, but I don’t know. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

White men eat you up, but sometimes colored folk eat you up, too. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You know how it goes. It somehow went from you slipping folks candy in the halls to you slipping folks weed in the halls.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Boy, you better go on and read that book before I lose my temper. Think you can come in here and mix yourself up in grown folks’ business? Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

A strange listlessness had settled over Castle Black since Stannis had marched south, as if the free folk and the black brothers alike were holding their breath, waiting to see what would come. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His tunes were firmly rooted in an easy-to-grasp, enchanting-to-sing Italian vocal style, so that ordinary folk really could leave the theatre humming. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the rail, folks rush down. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The car made a swell racket, and if I went slow, folks who heard me coming had plenty time to run out on the porch and watch me drive by. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She must have realized now that I was aware of her awful truth—she was an adult being treated like a child by the white folks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After times got tough, semed like the white folk didn’t like him anymore. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Preacher liked waving his arms ’round whilst he was talking, and he was really going at it to try to impress these new folks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They’re older, and they have the hangdog look I associate with the folks who came up enslaved, who never knew a taste of freedom until it was too late for them to properly embrace it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Now colored folks like Ophie and her mother, historically in bondage, exercised the freedom they did have to make their way to the city, escaping the chokehold of Jim Crow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“He’s there. Not as much, but he knows where I am. He still wants to tell me something, I have no idea what. I’ll never know. How are your folks?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the grown folks freeze into stillness, not moving, scarcely breathing, while they listened. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to be a memorable birthday if folks were already this riled. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

‘Sure. And all kinds of folks come in the place. I like it better than any job I ever had. It pays more.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

People, at least the white folks who had visited there, said that Yankees up north weren’t friendly and didn’t like you if you was from the South, though. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like a long drive for your folks tonight, all the way from Allentown!” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“If even outcasts and downtrodden folk like yourselves can’t muster a bit of compassion for others,” she said, “then there’s no hope for this world.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Preacher Powell chuckled and a few folks murmured back. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I didn’t feel welcome there by some folks, but that was home. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, I know, is her way of telling us to go to my room, close the door, and let the grown folk be. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Nothing much there but bugs and gators and a few folks scraping the dirt to make do. My mother is dead. My father as well.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine that any one of us would ever talk back to our folks or other adults. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That news always kills any conversation you’re having with grown folks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The crowd muttered, some folks craning their necks to see. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, black and brown folks gathered at the Zanzibar for shows and had a good ol’ time at it too, but the shadow of what was outside always loomed. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Power off any tools, folks. It’s your last Keller’s Critique!” he shouts. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I had never been inside since I knew they didn’t appreciate black folks with no money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some Dark World folks really like to look the part. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m guessing ye tried to contact us folks down here on New World when ye were a-scouting the planet?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s not the first time folks in this city have gone after the police,” said Shamika. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“There’s lots of folks who could fill in for Weintraub. Why does he want you so bad?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I would walk past all the folks sitting in the town square beneath the big oak tree. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I didn’t tell that to those folks at NASA. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hall of Elrond’s house was filled with folk: Elves for the most part, though there were a few guests of other sorts. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He gives me a wink, and just as quickly as he appeared, he fades back into the crowd of respectable folk moving down the sidewalks, anxious to finish their business and get inside before dark. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know? Okay, I’ll tell you. He’s paying protection money. Your old man likes to keep the fuzz around because he’s scared of us black folks.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When we could hear the music real clear, and folks talking to each other and the sound of sticks cracking in a fire, we started cutting through the trees. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Frodo could understand little of what was said, for the speech that the Silvan folk east of the mountains used among themselves was unlike that of the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Many of our most popular American children’s songs hail from centuries of ballads, hymns, popular and folk music of early New Englanders, Scottish, and English settlers inhabiting Appalachia, and African and European descendants. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

"Your folks must have really worked hard," Sandy said. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron comes out from the kitchen and says, “We’re closing up, folks. You either take your food to go or you don’t take it at all.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If he had handled it right, maybe she would have stayed in the house, nursed her baby, learned how to dress and talk to folks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After her folks passed, she moved from kin to kin and couldn’t stay in one school long enough. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell her all that, but I didn’t because I knew it would make her ask questions about my folks, and I just wasn’t ready for that. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to sing a few folk songs,” he said, picking his banjo. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“He was faking to protect his skin. Some folks switch back and forth. One day they’re for the King, the next, it’s all ‘liberty and freedom, huzzah’! Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the pack is still fifty yards away and moving like elderly folks, hunched over and slow. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After that meeting, most folks felt a little uneasy about Miss Love. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

What they do is really hard, and I don’t think most folks get that. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They weren’t bad folk, but I know my mother and father raised me to work hard and have more pride in myself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mother stayed in bed Dilsey would put old clothes on us and let us go out in the rain because she said rain never hurt young folks. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can go around and tell folks if you want to,” he said, boldly, “but it ain’t going to look so good for you neither.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Making somebody work hard isn’t as easy as it looks, some folks are good at it and some folks aren’t. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

After every memory Peach would say “Amen!” and folks would chuckle. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"At least not to me. My folks are rocket scientists. This is pretty much as normal as it gets in this house." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Born looney. Is you one of them show folks.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her dream they had been man and wife, simple folk who lived a simple life in a tall stone house with a red door. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some seemed like regular country folk, but others wore rich clothes not useful for muck shoveling. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school, I’d ride the bus to the end of the line and wait for my folks. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes it’s easier to think about other folks’ small hurts than your big ones.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Probably for the best. A couple hundred years ago, a person was good as dead if folk saw he had a knack. The Tehlins called them demon signs, and burned folk if they had them.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Biddy already teaching me lots. Mostly how to be nice to folks that never hurt me.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A few other folks had also stopped singing and were craning their necks to find the source of the only real music in that little church. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Our folks were wandering around the hotel somewhere and I was halfway through my last hundred shots when Annie started waving her hands around like crazy. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Those white folks are mean and nasty people.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor man come through and calls from the front of the car, “Sorry, folks, we expect to be delayed anywhere from forty-five minutes to an hour.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

‘I certainly trust you not been waiting long. So many folks been coming that us thought it wise to untach the bell. You gentlemens just let me take you hats—Father been mighty sick.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Young folks ain’t got no sense these days,” she said at last. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was moonlight, you could see out there, down the back roads behind our store where the black folks lived, and from the balcony I’d look for him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d already be in the thick of everything, and folks would be patting all over him. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘I do not doubt it,' said Legolas. ‘But you are a dwarf, and dwarves are strange folk. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“My kinsmen are a wild and barbaric folk, I’m afraid. You might encounter them in the wilderness, or at major sporting events. But you won’t see any here.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Asked me lots 'bout what I thought 'bout things, and 'bout my folks and the kids, and wrote it all down in a book. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re connected to the folks who died in the towers. Even though I wish I wasn’t a New Yorker,” he mumbles. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Four grown folks had held Bugs down whilst they tried to pull it out with a pair of tweezers but the only thing that that did was pull the roach’s back legs off. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“There’ll be a bunch of kids going down south to spend the summer with folks. A few parents on the bus to keep an eye on things. They’ll be fine,” Pa said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There were more cheering black folks outside the courthouse who couldn't get in. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And she soon found they were just as varied and different as living folks. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“None of these folks are really who they say they are,” Adeline whispered. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A parcel of folk were standing about a stout old grandame. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie was overwhelmed by all there was to look at: the finely dressed colored folks, the heavy drapes that made the space feel grand and special, the wide white screen waiting for the film. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Most folks had fled, afeard to be caught between two angry armies. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe folks like Biddy and me not different. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how much they cost, so I approached the only girl in my class who wore braces and, after complimenting her orthodontia, casually asked how much it had set her folks back. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I'd be having to say the same thing to fifteen or twenty government folks. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Got himself all involved buying up the new fairgrounds, getting folks in Amity Harbor to donate lumber and whatnot for the dance pavilion at West Port Jensen. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s some folks in this town always bent on stirring up trouble.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” said Jean Louise gently, “they go around loose up there, all kinds of folks.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You stick to your own kind. Better for you and your folks. Go on home.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Poppy always included camels in his childhood stories and folk tales, but they’d mostly vanished from this land since then. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bless all you kind and generous folk ready to empty your wallets into the Dregs’ coffers and call it a good time. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Washingtons men had spent the dark night and foggy morning rowing all of the troops back to New York Island-some nine thousand men, folks said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew by now that the humble folk who sat in the very back of the Meeting House were servants of the fine families of Wethersfield. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She ran toward the crowd like she was getting ready to start swinging on folks, and people started walking away pretty quickly. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He’s sort of talking without looking at me, the way folks do when they don’t want to embarrass you. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides that, as bad as the colored were treated, some folks got real mad when a colored left and moved up north. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t train these telemarketer folks well at all. I bet he’s a temp with no health insurance and no benefits.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By now, a year and a half had passed and folk were almost mad with curiosity. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She learned long ago that white folks could not be trusted. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s always the old folks, who don’t get asked to go many places and are mad that there isn’t more heat. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s near impossible to hire help, what with folks running off in fear of the war.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, the folks in Manifest weren’t really Friends; they were more like acquaintances. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If Stannis placed the free folk in the van, most would perish quickly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You folks on your way to the beach?” he asked. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He said, “If white folks find out you’re pregnant by me, I will surely hang.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

What can I get you folks?” says the girl, still behind the counter. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Shoot, I figure if that man was smart ’nought to cheat all us, he have to be smart ’nough to know better than to gamble with no white folks.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The kind colored folks tell on themselves when the rain doesn’t come, or comes for weeks, and they’re looking for a little comfort somehow. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It did not enter his head that a wizard might be ashamed to perform such simple crafts, for he had been a witch-child among poorer folk than these. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers found themselves as homeless as regular folk, so their commanders ordered that anyone with an undamaged home share it with the men. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one of the younger folk called for a song. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

These white folk talking ’bout some future, telling me I need to be planning for some future—like I got one! Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nawsuh. You got me wrong. I ain’t never fooled around with them folks. Miss Dalton and Mr. Jan was the first ones I ever met, so help me God!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘How will you and your folk help us?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

We sat in the same room with white folks, able to observe them close up. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Pluto had given those folks a pass, like he had for Hazel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I could see how it was a whole lot harder when things were real and you had to worry ’bout shotguns and chains and coughing little babies and crying folks without no clothes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Marvin LaBlue, the only Easterner among them, drawled, “Don’t panic, folks, that was just a little bug. Back home we call ’em fireflies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

These young ones kept talking about the community, but they left the hills to the poor, the old, the stubborn—and the rich white folks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Such folks were warned to keep their thoughts to themselves. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You folks keep your seat. I reckon it aint that serious, Jason? Have a seat.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t let on to folks that I couldn’t read. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those folks are dead, so I don’t know if they’re good names or not. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some folks is whispering, murmuring to God, and a quiet power fill up the room, like bees buzzing on a comb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And very surprised, because almost nobody can see fairies and other charmed folk anymore. They’ve all forgotten how.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Most of the colored folk in the state had been bought up by the government. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“So I know folks in this other bigger place, but the good thing about this one is they’ll get you a work visa and start your green card process.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The subject of white folks is associationally swept into the orbit of talk. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No use letting folks see who we are. Now when you get your buckets line up and let me fill 'em." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like last week, when Miss Skeeter showed me Miss Hilly’s reasons why colored folk need they own bathroom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Most folks that I know don’t read so much and don’t have great book learning. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we ate, I started clearing out the barn shed for a garage, but couldn’t make much headway for folks dropping by to see the automobile. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“The free folk have neither laws nor lords,” Jon said, “but they love their children. Will you admit that much?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I knew I had to act right, because someone was always watching, waiting to get word back to my folks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

‘Dwarves are said to be cunning folk with stone. Lend us your aid, master!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But he spoke that same evening to his eldest son, saying, “Have done with all this painting and polishing. It is enough. We are, after all, country folk.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She sings French folk songs in a screechy falsetto, harbors a weakness for sherry, and regularly falls asleep standing up. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"It was a great shock to me. Her parents were decent folk, too, who had brought her up very strictly. I'm glad to say they did not condone her behaviour." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t come right out and tell folks I was in his store buying cheap food, but he might just pass it along that the Preston family’s in hard times, and suddenly food starts appearing. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You was setting there at that table with them white folks like you was a lawyer or something. You wouldn’t even look at me when I spoke to you.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well... he just disliked black folks. And he cheated them. Sold ’em anything and everything and charged ’em as much as he could. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seven inns around the village were still jammed with folk who had left Philadelphia, and the few larger houses in the area were already filled with guests. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“It's not polite to spy on folks,” she said, making me jump back, startled. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She’d wanted to hear all the nice things folks would say about her, so they went ahead and held the services early. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“They changed that law making folks play the cotton market.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A person like Jenny did not speak to folks like the Locktons or Mr. Robert, not in that manner. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was feeling more and more vulnerable as I watched them continually struggle to solve the mystery of what white folks expected of them. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa had sense enough to know what folks were saying. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

See, the first row is for folks who wanna show off. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Everybody else cleared the floor, watching my folks dance fast, slow, even hip-hop. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow, the weather folks say, it might snow. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In between the crowing contest, the backwards bicycle race, and all that, you’d see folks gathered together, talking and laughing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Those folks at the school district probably don’t want a former drug addict working with them. It’ll be okay. I gotta believe that.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was so evident that Mrs. Turner took black folk as a personal affront to herself. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Tormund means to lead his own folk to Oakenshield within a day or two. The rest will follow, as soon as we sort where to put them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I hated it that folks would talk about me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Don’t fake your crying like some folks do-it’s impolite and people can tell. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The arrogance of big-city folk! You grant your metropolises all the animals of Eden, but you deny my hamlet the merest Bengal tiger!” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing colored folks hadn’t built was the tree. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Sweeping, folks stopping by, a break for water where Ivan don’t say nothing to me, more sweeping. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A group of folks were gathered in the middle, playing cards and carrying on the way Magdalys and the kids at the orphanage did when none of the matrons were around. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Turner did not play the rest of the game, which was just as well, folks figured, since they were down to their last baseball. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There were a few smiles at Belet, too, as nosy folks tried to meet my "new friend." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I want to stop that moment from coming—and it come in ever white child’s life—when they start to think that colored folks ain’t as good as whites. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“They surely were, Ophelia. They communicated with the dead for folks. They kept villages safe from haints and made sure everyone passed on when it was their time.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Uh-huh. Some folk we...don’t know...from Windsor got him loaded on a wagon.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I could tell that there were folks that didn’t like me for the color of my skin. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we lived on the edge of what was termed an upper-middle-class neighborhood—Eden Prairie, Minnesota—our house was small, a “fixer-upper” when my folks bought it four years ago. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“So I guess you will be telling your folks about NYU.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have permission to be here from the Professor, or our folks or anybody.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t argue with white folks,” he had said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Jesus was talkin’ in His sleep, son, or folks heard Him wrong. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Wildlings, the Seven Kingdoms called them; they named themselves the free folk They looked neither wild nor free-only hungry, frightened, numb. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t thinking of you. I was thinking about others. Some folk will say Eliza took advantage of you. They don’t like to see black people move up.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere I looked, folks looked like they were moving so fast I wondered why everyone was in such a hurry. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Usually nobody remembers who originally wrote it, or who changed it, and there may be more than one version of any particular folk song. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I remembered him jacklegging my fish, I remembered him telling confusing tales to the new-free folks, I remembered him thinking ’bout making me travel with that conjurer, Sir Charles. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

"The little folk dare anything," said his friend. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But I thought his folks were supposed to be such bluebloods,” I said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking these folks on up to Gwynedd, and the wife and me are heading for her mother’s in Bethlehem.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was Mr. Major, the plumber; Miss Austine, the hairdresser; Miss Brooks, the nurse; Mr. Elders, the dentist; and a whole array of kind working folks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Alcohol was against the law then as much as it was in 1917, but folks could usually get a bottle of the stuff here or there. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But what always struck me about black folks was that every Sunday they’d get dressed up so clean for church I wouldn’t recognize them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Keep to the green grass. Don’t you go a-meddling with old stone or cold Wights or prying in their houses, unless you be strong folk with hearts that never falter!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The bar is full of plain ordinary folk, some looking down on their luck, some looking to celebrate. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I’m not saying that the Chandrian are out there, striking like lightning from the clear blue sky. But folk everywhere are afraid of them. There’s usually a reason for that.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I guess somebody somewhere loves to see poor folks in the hood begging for food. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My social calendar is always full at Miss Preston's, and the number of fine folks I meet really is a credit to the education I am receiving here. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Late one night, I saw Murray and a few other folks who looked like they had leprosy planting flowers along Duval Street. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marshall didn’t like people to say “baby-sitter,” but he didn’t mind having someone ‘‘visit” him while his folks were away. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first we drove them around town ourselves, but my husband, Franklin, he’s got a bad back, so we decided to plant them, just like corn, and let folks come to us.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Grieving in their dugout that night, someone started to sing a folk song. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"Child, I don't know where you live, but I want you to walk that way over there, where I think there are some of your folks," she said. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As in many folk observations, there was some evidence for this. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you heard any of the new folk music over here?” he asked. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he launches into a speech about the war ads, how they’re trying to talk black folks into going to fight for the so-called freedom we don’t even have on our own shores. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t let colored folks in libraries, baby. Now go fetch some eggs for your mama so I can start this cornbread.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Leafmeal, Gram said the charmed folk called it, when the autumn leaves started to shatter into dust. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Brother Wolf, you have done much evil so that all folk are your enemy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Geometric and psychedelic shapes, mosaics, and mandalas...There is a calm in the chaos that most folks don’t see. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a Sunday afternoon, and folks are dressed up in their churchgoing fineness. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still lives with his folks, Marv The house is pretty nice inside, I must admit. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They passed long brick walls dividing the compounds of Seatown’s wealthy traders from the common folk who did the work of the city. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, what a good wingman you are, Scoob-a-doob! I mean that in the military sense, by the way. Not the way young folks these days use it.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Is the neighborhood mostly white folk or colored?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Their mama chatted with folks, asking about their sick grandmas and making on over their babies while their redheaded daddy mopped his face with a handkerchief. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They drank healths, told stories, sang songs, ‘reminisced’, as the old folks say, and had a thoroughly good time. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traft thanked me, then stepped away, and I was caught up with the crowd of folks lined up for sandwiches. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

White folks and colored, too, stood in clumps staring at her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Unlike folk music, it has usually been written recently and belongs to professional musicians, and new popular tunes quickly replace old ones. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

That undertaker that lays out black folks ain’t none too cheap.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never did have a lot of use for him and my folks didn’t, either. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And there are some folk in Bree who are not to be trusted,’ he went on. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The King of the Sparra folk sat staring at the young mouse in silence. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At my old school, I’m not sure folks would know about the missing towers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond the city walls, a hundred pavilions had been raised beside the river, and the common folk came out in the thousands to watch the games. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Owen the Oaf took up his fiddle, and several of the free folk joined in with pipes and drums. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This was the part where Pa was supposed to scold Fern for getting into grown folk’s business. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

What I’d assumed was a boulder was really the giant folk hero sitting against a tree trunk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Shoot,” Bull sneered, “I talked to some folks already and they told me that Arrabelle Smalls was the laziest, most worthless, most good-for-nothing so and so that ever spit between two lips.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot of folks have been focusing on the violent nature of the lyrics. Do you think they encouraged those students at that school to act out violently?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Back in Lansing, all the white folks knew all the steps to all the dances somehow, but I never learned them, and so I never got out on the floor. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halleck was proving to be just as truculent as he had feared, and there were some amongst the black brothers whose hatred of the free folk was bone deep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

How even in America, folks can live different. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she cut herself off from us, tapped her fountain pen, and repeated, “Black folks, in black clothes, rapping revolution.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, getting meat and eggs from the Salatins helped these folks solve their dilemma, at least a little. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The lot o’ them been lording the big secret over folk for half a year, smug as pontiffs.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s where we stay. Colored folk, I mean.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and folks come from miles to drink, even bathe in it. Burton will make a fortune.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

—The Marshall Morning News, January 25, 1923 I had never really talked to any other white folks about such things as the Klan and so I watched to gauge Richard’s reaction. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the first time I get to dance Tinikling, a folk dance that mimics a tikling bird hopping between stems of grass and running over tree branches. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

‘Come! Let us go on! The thought of those merry young folk driven like cattle burns my heart.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Run, folks. He might kill us all. Personally, I think maybe he’s the communiss.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’ve been thinking about this: Why are we dependent on other folks to take care of us? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not until we can dance in the same room as white folks. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had to, you know, learn not to let what other folks thought of me determine how I thought about myself.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I got to get supper for all them folks soon as you all get done eating.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t, Will. Don’t say anything at all. This is for grown folks. Anything you say might just make it worse.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Lots of other folks think that. There’s talk about changin’ it to something prosperous-soundin’, the way Harmony Grove was changed to Commerce a few years ago. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Town people thought you couldn’t be too careful when it was a question of your children hobnobbing with mill folks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Ashford, folks,” the driver called out, opening the bus door and killing the engine. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Only medicine men and medicine women are able to remember each story. The medicine folk say that the sp’ sing their stories to each other. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

You tearing off in one direction and Leroy tearing off in the other, I’s too old to be chasing after folks like a hound dog. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“No, chile, them folks just stood there and laughed at him—right in his face. He had no power here, so he had to leave.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never worried about me being a “mama’s boy” like some folks said. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Let the old hypocrites learn to mind their own business, and leave other folks alone. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Luther accordingly had collected numerous popular contemporary folk tunes, given them holy words, and encouraged these hymns, or chorales, to be sung in Lutheran churches. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

How did they fit in with the southern white folks, with the men who gave me my scholarship? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he ever done was cut de monkey for white folks. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was a rumor, a fable, but it was a rumor and fable from which marvels emerged, carried by camels across the desert to fire the imaginations of folk the world over. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We must hasten back on the wings of prose to the factory and its folk, who prompted my rather lengthy digression. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whole lot of folks weren’t as fortunate as us Dawsons, who owned our land. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crow’s nest folk don’t seem to like when I hang around too much. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Some folks will find a excuse to strap you even if you’re working as hard as you ever did in your life. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Some folks are natural bom kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘We have come all the way from the Mines to kill, and avenge our folk. I wish to kill, and then go back north.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I want to see you back before Thanksgiving, if your folks will let you.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’m not used to feeling sad for folks who have stuff. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

If they’d known more about the nature of the work behind the noise, and the successes being chalked up by the strange folks next door, the neighbors might have asked for a tour. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She had a special “old folks” seat close to the altar and strolled up the center aisle to take her place. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One the things you got to love ’bout A-mur-ic-a is that we’s got laws that protects all sorts of folks from getting hurt by other folks. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And the handful of nameless folks on my list? Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The telephone rang a hundred times downstairs, and I heard my mother’s voice talking to folks all over the countryside. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian glanced at the audience as if to say: This wasn’t my idea, folks. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“But don’t act like this is all on us. You’ve changed on folks, too.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Them’s the folks with some money,” Cliff said, pointing to a marble one. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Back at First Congregational, folks were quiet around Turner, though Deacon Hurd had stopped him outside church the Sunday after the game. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Any kind of folk music or rock and roll was out. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I think so, yeah. The bowling alley they’ve been using has gone out of business, and Scatterpin is closer for most of the folks on his team, so I guess yeah.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Are we the only folks who work here now?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“The South. Jesus. No wonder you folks all outlive yourselves by years and years and years.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street’s full a folks walking to sweet Louvenia’s to pray for Robert, kids playing ball in the street. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Of course you couldn't speak that way in the South, the white folks wouldn't like it, and the Negroes would say that you were "putting on." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We— well, not me, but most—look just like other folk. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mama had been scared folks would criticize and say the family didn’t show proper respect, not having Grandpa embalmed and not having a church funeral, and then getting up a party. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You want to go to college? I’ll send you to college in No folk. Or business school, whatever you want, but you have to stay.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And times move on, folks have to move on with them. You’ll find some other place to squat. Lord knows it won’t take long to build another shack like this one.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I said, “Yes, ma’am, my spirit’s a lot stronger than it looks too, most folks are really surprised by that.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was the smell of five growned folks and one baby that were afeared of everything. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Quiet before a storm maybe means folks are done hammering wood across their windows and placing sand sacks beside their front doors. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She had stopped throughout the rural South to teach Negroes folk songs she had learned at the Library of Congress. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buster Friendly said, “We may never know. Nor can we fathom the peculiar purpose behind this swindle. Yes, folks, swindle. Mercerism is a swindler!” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s because you came. It must be because you folks came.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most folks took no more notice of me than they would a cartman selling oysters or a vagabond from Canvastown. just as I set my mind to leave, Captain Farrar came back out. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Figures. You know what else people saying too. Got folks thinking you’re my girlfriend.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And many folk used to dwell away north, a hundred miles or more from here, at the far end of the Greenway: on the North Downs or by Lake Evendim.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Whether I finish up school here, or in Yorktown Heights depends on my folks. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a terrible flu going around and the pneumonia took a lot of folks, especially older ones. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I really don’t know what I’d do if it weren’t for all the kindness you folks have shown me and Jubilee. ‘Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.’ Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Good grief,” he remarked, “this obituary might scare some of these old folks to death.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s more folks moving into the nice part of town, but we haven’t gotten any new Negroes for the patrols. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"Okay, time to come out to the folks," he says, and hustles out onto the stage. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The letter wasn’t in Greek but English and Lefty had to translate: Dear folks, This is the last letter I’ll be able to send you. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I fire a shot into the air, and the sound is enough to startle folks out of their terror for just a moment. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

So lots of folk—mostly non-black—say Obama’s not black, he’s biracial, multiracial, black-and-white, anything but just black. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A group of poor folks thought we could get something done by talking it out. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t know anybody who likes him much, but around here folks keep to their own business, like Dad says. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not,” she added quickly, “that you couldn’t find someplace else. Plenty of folks would take you in. But no one else needs you. Not like Auntie Braxton.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know why the old folks called it that, the Boogie Down. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Ophie knew better than to ask such a thing, to wonder why it was that all the grown folks said nice things about people even when they were lies. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They are people with loving families, regular folk who pay taxes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Your own folk. In fear. Some will hate you if they know what you are. Some will even try to kill you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Henrietta and her cousins would hire themselves out to those white folks, pulling their tobacco for ten cents so they’d have money to see their favorite Buck Jones cowboy movies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In addition to pre-composed children’s songs or folk songs, children create their own make-believe dialog and songs while playing with each other, or their toys and dolls, or just while daydreaming. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And praising like church folks, jumping from their seats when the music gets good and the preacher gets to preaching loud. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

About the first time Gram brought me here and what she said about the charmed folk who came over on the ships from Europe. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

This time last year, when she was back in Beaufort with her folks, she wouldn’t have given a second thought to a slave going to work in the rice fields. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, child. I told you, folks round here love ’em. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Just the thought of all the things I’d taken—silly trinkets I knew folks valued more than they did other human beings—it made me feel powerful. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Dirty Deed said, “Too simple. I think we need something that lets folks know about how slim the boy is.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A few folks said “Amen!” in response, and he continued. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Colored folks are starting to move into the white neighborhoods there, and well, there’ve been a lot of bombings. In one part of town there have been so many explosions, they call it Dynamite Hill.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Simmon and I finally got to our feet, the normal clamor in the Mess quieted as folk watched us leave. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The dock’s tore up right smart, but folks got their homes.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made the folks talk about you, try to figure you out. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scruggs joined about 300 other guys to watch the folk singer Arlo Guthrie defy attempts by the government to draft him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He identified himself with his family and felt their naked shame under the eyes of white folks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few folks, especially the grandmothers, thought I was a brave little dude for going to a white school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Some folks’ let Fowler drive them into the fields every day and work them like mules.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Black folks who were already inside beamed with joy as she passed them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All the colored folks do that, but it don’t get ’em nothing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jewel was a formerly homeless folk singer who gained popularity in the nineties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Or like last year when Dr. King spent a few months in town “stirring up trouble,” as the white folks liked to say. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We got bodegas on both ends, which is cool, and a whole bunch of what my mom calls "interesting" folks who live in the middle. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“What can I tell you folks about Lake Windsor Middle?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor folks might take a notion to collect. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael had been in prison for a carjacking when he was nineteen and he was fond of saying “Some black folk don’t appreciate education until after they go to prison.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But if some folks were worked up, they wouldn't bother to be asking me either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Deep Lake, Sable Hall, and the Long Barrow. All garrisoned with free folk, under the command of our own officers. The Long Barrow will be all women, aside from the commander and chief steward.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Common folk stood froze at the sight of a king being pulled down by the strength of the men working together. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not rise as early as market folk. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well anyhow, folks who think God’s will jest has to do with sufferin’ and dyin’, they done missed the whole point.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Hancock said, “I’m sending the body back to his folks in Lancaster. They might appreciate a note from you.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we pull up to my house, he says, “Just tell Erin and your folks we were talking hoops, okay? They don’t need to know our secret.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, he’d seen his fair share of the burnt-out shells folks had once called home. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She said, “Oh, yeah, I forgot, you’re a hero to some folks.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Not a lot of white folks in this part of town, but plenty of passing folks.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s half the fence team, as well as a few folks from the patrols.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“If you’re looking for folks to make sense, my girl,” he said, “you may find yourself looking for a very long time indeed.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

This would be a good place to start learning more on the subject of modern folk music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I would run down the back roads where the black folks lived, across the tracks to where the white folks were. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would be the finest thing on earth for me, but what about my folks? My ma has lost three little boys and Mary—and Tom—and Bill. I’m the youngest; they depend on me.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got to learn to watch what you say! Don’t you know there’s folks in this house who love to carry tales?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If Jan said that they had not been drinking it could be proved that they had been drinking by folks in the cafe. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She need fear no harm from the free folk, he hoped... but both of them knew too well that wildlings were not the only ones waiting in the woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I know you lived in a world where black folks were hosed and beaten and jailed and killed while fighting for equal rights, but you still managed to be, like, dignified and everything. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“She was enslaved by carnival folk,” Addison said, “forced to pull fat, spoiled children like some common beast of burden— whipped, even, with riding crops!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“If my wife was here neither of us would ever want to go back to London, I reckon. We’re both country folks, really.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Just ushers and a couple of elderly folk who hadn’t wanted to leave their seats. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But mostly, folks could stay out of trouble if they had a mind to do that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not yet. A colored boy and a drover are walking the line and counting how many of those bodies used to be folks we know. Are you okay?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“We folks in the industry call it ‘It.’ On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I got me a fine boy that you can see up on the store street selling flower to the folk that come downtown.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw her mother curled beside her in a hut, singing folk songs under her breath, and she saw the way Mama’s eyes had rolled back in her head. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s weird to say, but most of the teenagers and old folks who’ve died around here have passed through Willie Ray’s door. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Greed can be a bad thing—folks thought they could make a lot of money without a lot of work. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The city folks stood outside on their verandahs, tensed up, shaking with fear. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And there was a chance that not all the pale-skinned folks at the stop were passing light. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Breland said to Sheriff Strider, “Sheriff, sounds to me like you know more about undertaking than some folks around here.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I glance around the Negro tables and realize a few of those folks are as well. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I’ll talk to these elder folks,” I say, picking up Viola’s bag from the floor and stuffing the rest of the washed clothes in it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They was poor folk but with a generous nature. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay! Time to go, folks! Three, two, and one!” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had been sort of a father to him since our folks split, and I know he missed me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear what he told folks when he left her?” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chuckled louder this time, and more folks laughed with him. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fallen: he and Esther in the white folks’ kitchen, the light burning, the door half-open, grappling and burning beside the sink. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Guess she does! She knows just what folks like, and gets paid well for writing it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recalled a preacher in Des Moines who had warned folks who had come for a soup supper to give up their evil ways and stay off the path to perdition. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

All around the Commons folks went on their business, soldiers rubbing the cold out of their fingers, women wrapped in long cloaks and thick shawls. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

More of the free folk chose the woods after that—one in ten, perhaps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But Mama said the blues makes you feel the hurt deep down in your gut and the blues is about how much colored folks go through in life and love. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“How do the bee folk know there is pollen in a flower? Ask away, young one, before I doze off again.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Since ancient times, folk music has been the music of ordinary people, not the ruling class or professional musicians. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But none of her folk saw this parting, for they hid themselves in fear and would not come forth until the day was up, and the reckless strangers were gone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“When all my folk are safe behind your Wall, we’ll share a bit o’ meat and mead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘Some folk have all the luck,’ they said; but it was not until Frodo approached the usually more sober age of fifty that they began to think it queer. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Got orders from headquarters. They makin’ coffins fuh all de white folks. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Look in the line, there’s lots of folks look just like you, you ain’t the worst. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I figured he didn’t feel right, being in the same car with white folks, though Lord knows nobody cared right then. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Daddy, come quick! Momma is starting to fraternize with white folk!” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the white folks in the room are nodding and giving praise. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Mostly freed slaves. Some white folk—mostly Spaniards, espaholes. Lots of Indians from different tribes—Creek, Seminole, Cherokee—all living together. There is nothing like it en todo el mundo—in all the world.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thought fast, I tell you. ‘Wait a minute, folks!’ Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Austin Wood- folk, the slave trader, was in Cambridge, and Brodas had arranged for her sale. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grab his hand and pump it like she be getting water, then she shaking hands with the other folks on the platform. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He’d sent in Harmony Grove to name a new park over in England and it won him a five-hundret-dollar prize, but over on this side a-the ocean, folks thought it sounded tacky and countrified.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After the folk songs came a group of operatic arias. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Taking in folk off-hand like, and eating extra food, and all that,’ said Hob. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“But they hate black folks more than they hate unions,” Bigger said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A visitation, which happens right before the funeral, is a time for folks to visit the family and to offer them comfort. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she raised her hands and waved them grandly, and we began a medley of American folk songs—which are supposed to make your heart swell patriotically. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Our last Saturday night on the Island, the compound folks sit on Tía Carmen's patio, reminiscing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Needing to change the subject, she asked, “Why are none of your folk here?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Couple minutes here. Some more folks getting on.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And not for the last time in musical history, ‘art music’, the music of the wealthy, educated and privileged, was to be saved from itself by popular, or folk song, traditions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Lots of liberal white folks are looking for black friends. It’s almost as hard as finding an egg donor who is a tall blond eighteen-year-old at Harvard.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Break it and I'll give you some butter since you gon' eat it right here. Lots of folks takes 'em home. They got their own butter at home." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It frightened me and made me think a lot about how, if I got into trouble with white people, the folks I counted on most in my life for protection couldn’t help me at all. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Elves are wonderful folk. It looks a bit thin, but it’s tough; and soft as milk to the hand. Packs close too, and as light as light. Wonderful folk to be sure!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

That waren’t gonna be till after eight in the evening, and it just didn’t seem right that the person that caused all this woe had to let other folks clean up behind him. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Right now there’s only one thing these folks need to know and you’re the only one who can teach them.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wish some of these black kids today could see how the black folks in Suffolk lived then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On some folks around here, a cut-up eye wouldn’t even get a comment. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It's easier, my grandmother says, than having white folks look at me like I'm dirt. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We don’t allow any Chinese folks in town, the preacher’s made that clear.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that unusual, yeh get a lot o’ funny folk in the Hog’s Head — that’s one o’ the pubs down in the village. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“There’ll be plenty of room in the parlors and folks can mingle.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was midday and the folks were gathered for a cool drink, a bite to eat, and some conversating. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it appeared that what he had heard in Boston was true: folks in Maine spoke a whole different language, and didn’t care for those who couldn’t speak it themselves. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He grinned at me and shouted, “Everything be just fine folks. We’ll have the cow moved off the tracks in a minute. There’s no need to worry about a thing.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks come out smiling; others, solemn; still others, crying. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All afternoon I sat wondering who could’ve given me that orange, my mind settling on folks in turn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

John Henry leaned forward, and the giant folk hero let a rumbling growl escape his chest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The folk in Auburn said Harriet had married him in order to take care of him, that even though he was a big, handsome, young man, he had tuberculosis. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Happy folk are Hobbits to dwell near the shores of the sea!’ said Haldir. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“So will the folks from the Lutheran church.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was driven by outlandish folk, singing strange songs: dwarves with long beards and deep hoods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In this pause, if it was good weather, the old folks might step outside a moment to talk among themselves. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She’d heard tales of the brutality of the mountain folk from that region, and seen a few of them up close, seen the fierceness in their eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They got a sliding window on the back side so colored folk can get our ice cream too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it’s them white folk that get me with this future mess. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to have to tell you to fight. Give the folks a show. Touch gloves now.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody knows colored folks don’t have money to buy the stuff in this catalog,” Carolyn reasoned. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

By this time, it seemed to me the white folks had everything—the transportation, the housing, the grocery stores, the downtown department stores, and even all the policemen and firemen. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then the smell of the place got into my nose and I could tell why folks were lining up to get in. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s tough for most folks to understand. Unless...unless they’ve gone through it.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

A third cousin of Papa’s, Hopewell Stump, from out in Banks County, clerked and took care of the chickens that folks brought to trade out for nails, flour, sugar, coal oil, coffee, and chewing tobacco. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When folks saw the spell he was under they stepped aside like he was toting a bucket that was overflowing with the plague! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I said to myself, “We are lucky no white folks know about us.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I can’t tell if folks have slowed down or I just sped up. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Clay stopped to scratch his head, then said to his father, “I hear talk in town of folks in the North starting to speak about ending slavery.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his straw hat across his chest like folks do when a Confederate veteran’s funeral procession passes on its way to the graveyard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I’d heard Pa and other growned folks say this plenty of times, but I couldn’t help but follow where Pa’s finger was pointing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“If you folks at the City Hall don’t even know what penguins are, I guess you haven’t any rule saying they have to be licensed. I will do without a license for Captain Cook.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra saw little old couples tear it up, putting some of the awkward younger folks to shame. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Outgoing and extremely personable when the spirit moved him, he charmed a lot of folks. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you ready to let me bring in all those folks in the waiting room?” she asks. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I guess what messed me up was so many folks coming to call, from right after breakfast on. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We taught the children how to make pot holders out of yarn and how to glue rice, glitter, and tinsel to paper plates to make collages for their folks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If the “slavery was so long ago” thing comes up, have your white friend say that lots of white folks are still inheriting money that their families made a hundred years ago. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Though with all the old folks around me, that might not be such a bad idea! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“There were a few raised eyebrows, but not many. They’re earthy folk around here.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I think it’s gonna be something to, I don’t know, remember her folks with or make some kind of gesture or something but she finds what she’s looking for and it’s only a flashlight. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Pastor Tom gave a wave to the folks lined up to be saved and the many more there to watch and celebrate. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Till then, I always figured it was just as well if folks never took notice of me because as much as anything, that could mean trouble. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And colored folk was walking ’long on their merry way to who knowed where. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“All I’ll say is that they hire black folk for porter positions. They like strong boys that can dress sharp and talk right. Something for you to keep in mind,” Lewis said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything groovy up here for you and your folks?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For almost as long as black folks have been in this country, they’ve had a complicated relationship with law enforcement—and vice versa. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Some folks, they go fishing and they keep reeling in, changing bait, and trying again and again. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since there was nothing overtly suspicious about it—“Children of folks who lived through the Depression are known for keeping large amounts of cash where they can see it,” the detective said. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

So many ships had arrived by then-hundreds, folks said, with thousands of soldiers-that we could see the patches of white sail far down the harbor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him, “Sounds like what white folks would do then!” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is an example of D Minor Pentatonic in the folk song “The Canoe Song.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There ain't enough horses to go around, and a few of the younger men have to run with the colored folks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Some folks are unloading gallons of water from their cars; others, zombielike, instead of waving or saying hello when we pass by, keep staring at baby TVs or listening to boom box radios. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Standard Railroad of the World, that was what folks called her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he expressed his longing for Poland, at that time swallowed up in the Russian Empire, through his highly stylised adaptation of Polish folk dances - mazurkas and polonaises. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The TV shows folks partying in the French Quarter. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“There isn’t much middle ground with you, is there? All you want is a drink of water and the answer to a question that folk have been guessing at since ... well, since forever.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s a place for burying dead folk,” I say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s folks out lately that would kill you for a pair of pennies, let alone a horse and cart. What are you going to do now? Pull it yourself?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That changed things right off and like plenty of folks then, I could see that I was going to be riding the rails. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll ask along my mail route, but don’t know many folks with money to spare,” he says. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Clark said that’s what his folks say because Sis stays in that white school, being mistreated every day.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are the kind of people we all should be—not scared to speak out and do stuff to help folks.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He would say “If we are on a round ball, how come the folks on the bottom side just don’t fall off?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No farewells. The fewer folk who know of this, the better. An hour before first light, by the lichyard.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And knocking off white folks changes your slave status?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Granted, Miss New Hampshire. Please try to keep it clean. Not all of us were raised in a traveling RV of foul-mouthed circus folk.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And that smell and the sight of these chained folks and the sounds they made every time they moved started making me sick to my stomach. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His efforts were scoffed at by union leaders and picked apart by black folks and white folks alike. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“No, honey, it isn’t. But folks have got to move on as well, or else they can just get trapped in a moment, unable to do what they must. To live.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The folks let the people do the thinking. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was rather a comic cavalcade that left the village, though the few folk that came out to stare at the ’get-up’ of the travellers did not seem quite sure whether laughing was allowed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Folks would tell us, “Watch out for the red-light district in No folk,” and we’d go around No folk avoiding red traffic lights. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they marched to the Holy Land, Christians noticed “certain ripe plants which the common folk called‘honey cane’ and which were much like reeds.... Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Here in Mill Town on my crosstie stage, folks would suspicion her if they saw me acting friendly. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Over the years, I've learned that my father loved spicy food and folk music. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Some white folks came over to look at the map and I went back to my seat. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two, you got to cultivate. Most folks go for flax at first; easier to plant. As I said, one-eighth of the claim.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was an eerie hush over the crowd, not unlike the way I’d seen folks behave outside the home of the deceased just before a funeral. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits, bent nearly double, toiled along behind the taller folk, but it was plain that they could not go much further, if the snow continued. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“With Klan folks burning crosses in the middle of the night, we don’t need frights over cows, Jojo, you hear?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask him more, but he was busy greeting folks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

These folks have told me some of the funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking stories Eve ever heard. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A bunch of countrified folks yelling and screaming, waving flags and chewing tobacco, forcing confused kids to crawl through mud, preparing them to get killed in a war? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There were Cold Sassy folks at the depot and of course they were puzzled why I was such a hero. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Troops Take Over at Central High; Negroes Told to Wait —Arkansas Gazette, Tuesday, September 3, 1957 Tuesday afternoon, School Superintendent Virgil Blossom called a meeting of the nine of us students and our folks. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day there are notices of folks being charged with sedition; it seems anything can be interpreted as treasonous. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Coming home, they would be slowed by thousands of free folk, many sick and starved. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“What kind of neighborhood is it? You looking to grab these here folk or is you looking to move in?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The whole time I’m just standing there thinking: If heaven is the place people say it is, won’t it be impossible to be sad about the folks who ‘didn’t make it’ there?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They got folks who write whole books about it, go find them and ask them! The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

You got family now—folks who will help take care of you. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks ate burgers and hot dogs and fries, while others munched on sandwiches and snacks pulled out of coolers from home. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ben had asked Arrabelle where the voodoo people lived in Ravenel County and she had replied, “Every time you white folk go to the beach to color yourself up, you pass by some haint-fearin’ people. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something nice about realizing that there really was nothing wrong with being colored, despite what some folks thought. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Black folks aren’t born expecting segregation, prepared from day one to follow its confining rules. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie knew that colored folks had not always been free, and she understood that her work for the Carutherses resonated within the same patterns of history, even if she was paid a modest wage. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Some folk grumbled about servants and slaves being forced to sit in the upstairs gallery. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reporters, sketch artists, Reverend Thornton, officers, and community folks fill the rest of the seats. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“I saw you go into that fire on the floating island. I seen you give up rations so the crew could have more. Some folks, knowin’ when they’re gonna kick it, might play it safe. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He hacked and stumbled around, hollow-eyed, gaunt and sniffling, and folks crossed themselves, murmuring Hail Marys whenever he staggered into view. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

White folks not only refused to share with me, I was told to keep quiet because they would punish me if I complained and spoke my desire for those precious goods or privileges. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I figured me and Cooter would both get to eavesdrop on the growned folks’ meeting. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Bianca gave me a little kiss on the cheek and introduced me to some folk. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The room was full of black and brown folks from all over New York. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“White folks are being conscripted for the war against the slaver states and they don’t want to go. There was word there could be some backlash against black New Yorkers, but this...” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Well, I’m eleven now, folks, and, in case you haven’t heard, I don’t wet my bed anymore. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then I put on my “talking to white folks” voice and said, “Can you get her a glass of cold water?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around the country, folks were having hard times. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was imagining the civil liability, for Reggie, and his folks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, I have been read—hearing some folks talk on the subject, and I think it’s a tiny little critter that causes the infection. You know, like the same thing that makes milk sour.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I am so tired of being scared, of doing what other folks want me to. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Daddy had taught Ophie to read even though she complained about how hard it was, because he didn’t want her to be like so many folks who never got a chance to learn. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ah reckon if colored folks got they own town they kin have post offices and whatsoever they please, regardless. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Thirsty for information about friends and family and folks from all around, everyone loved Spoon Man’s visits—sometimes he even carried mail and packages, saving folks the cost of stamps. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Naturally, folks asked me what it was all about. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She knew that she was pregnant—knew it, as the old folks said, in her bones; and if Richard should be sent away, what, under Heaven, could she do? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The crowd clapped along with the singers, laughed at the comedians, and sang folk songs and songs of the movement. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He need be ’shamed of hisselfj scaring young folk with them nonsense stories.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

So her firm intention looked like an accident and she didn’t have to give her opinion to folks along the way. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Many Western children's songs, folk songs, and pop songs are in this category. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Had she gone to New York to immerse herself in folk music? Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Way we’re raised around here, children don’t talk back to grown folks. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks swore she was a witch; a few misguided harpies insinuated she had poisoned or otherwise murdered the three husbands who had died on her. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This war’s making folks forget what it means to be neighbors.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You must be Josh’s folks,” a girl in a long, homespun skirt said as we entered a courtyard. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

How much did her folks know of how she acted? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder,” said Turner slowly, “if it’s only the folks on Malaga Island who can make you think what they want you to think.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

"These folks zigged when the rest of the world zagged. And once you cross that line, there's no coming back. Mark my words." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“You think your boat can carry three folk at the same time?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

But I think that’s what the carnival folks were trying to do. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

By the next dance for the Boston black folk—I remember that Lionel Hampton was coming in to play—I had given my notice to the Roseland’s manager. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Vega didn’t have time to come to my Lego show at the health fair, but had time to hang out chillin’ with these folks? The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

No folk could they see, nor hear any feet upon the paths; but there were many voices, about them, and in the air above. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, the newspaper is printed, the machines are shut down and each man punches a clock and leaves but only Colored folks come home to Nicholtown. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I can vouch for those white folk in Alabama, Arrabelle. What do you take in your coffee?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed and said, “That’s good. I’s kind of surprised your folks let you go to that meeting in the first place.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

All of her questions were about our folks. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And folks were depending on me to bring ’em some fish. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Tears streamed down her face, and even though I couldn’t see anybody else’s face, really, I could tell a lot of people were crying by the way folks were thumbing the corners of their eyes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“L. Roy is a quack. Calls himself a scientist, but most of the time he just makes stuff up and hopes folks won’t know the difference.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Wandering around the markers, I couldn’t help noticing the dates, wondering if Gideon had known some of these folks while they were still among the living. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We get better food later on after the white folks eat,” said Luke. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone just kinda stared at Mr. Winston, which to most folks would mean, Leave us alone. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

History ain’t one of my favorite subjects, but I ain’t ever learned any history about colored folks being physicians and directors. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Soon it was Christmas and the inn teemed with folk going away or coming home. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ranchers got used to her coming around with the petitions: some folks even looked forward eagerly to her visits. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a lot of older folks, too. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I said, “Pa, Old Flapjack just got wind of some folks in the trees off to the east.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He eats up all de folks outa de house and den eat de house.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

You might be able to say that the Amoses were some mean old nosy folks, but you couldn’t call them thieves. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Stubborn breaks when it don’t bend, and his family had spent too much time with the kindly white folks in the north. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Jay wears a bigger smile than usual as we make our rounds, greeting folks. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Most folks seemed to think it meant she had died and gone to a better place. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Take the keys and get our folks! Now! We’ll cover you!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, Mrs. Brown was one of the few white folks in Suffolk that was nice to me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around mouthfuls of rabbit and blackberries she confesses that even the rations for the white folks have become smaller and smaller since so many families have arrived in the past couple of weeks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Go to sleep, poor folk,” he said to his silent hosts, and laid his head down on the floor of sand, and slept. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

All the growned folks that hadn’t never learnt to read nor write whilst they were ’slaved in America had to take lessons at the schoolhouse at night. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

My scowling friend was nowhere to be seen, but a cluster of folk were gathered around the bar, excitedly discussing something they saw there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Are you folks the Concerned Library Lovers?” asked a scrawny old man with a pointy beak who stood timidly in the doorway beside the butler. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Back home, my folks were counting on me, and Coach Drucker. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But other folks saw glory in such things. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Or a cellar full of dead bodies? You know what folks say about meeting your heroes...” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When Jackie came to the plate, colored folk everywhere were rooting for him to get a hit. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe folks who’d got free would do this to us! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Hard as we tried to resist it in our family, wasn’t no getting rid of that longing for approval from white folks. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s like what Copter’s ma said, that I’m a lot more growned and smarter than most folks my age. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The folk music of a culture is the music that is passed down from one generation to the next, often without writing it down. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

After waiting and prodding, Mr. Daniels finally says, “I’ll draw a name out of a hat or tell the council that we don’t have a representative. C’mon, folks. Step up.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Did my best, guy. I like to please the folks who bunk with criminals.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am no southron lady, he could hear her say, but a woman of the free folk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Trying to convince folk would only make them a laughingstock, like Crazy Martin, who had been trying to dig a well inside his own house for years now. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Ain’t you got no manners, boy? You better learn how to talk to old folks.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The police officer explained to my folks that I had been caught stealing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I guess that’s that. Maybe you all can meet a few more folks?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My folks taught me to be respectful of people. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the growned folks were trying not to scare us when they told stories ’bout folks being chained up, ’cause judging by the way these people looked, I knowed we waren’t getting the whole story. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Here he is, folks. None the worse for the experience. A good boy. I think we’re going to be good friends, eh, Charlie?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Other folks were also moving into abandoned buildings, she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most folks said it was the deweys, but one or two knew better, knew that Dessie and Ivy had been first. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But most of the folk of the old Shire regarded the Bucklanders as peculiar, half foreigners as it were. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, some folks don’t understand things like that and we just wanted to protect him.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s getting ugly out there, folks,” the weatherman continued. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I mean originally. Where are your folks from?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I did see her once downtown, when my folks were taking me to visit our lawyer. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

If we saw a creakity wagon up ahead full of country folks going to town, I’d cluck the mules to a smart trot and we’d all wave as we passed them. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Will the Whiz Kids folks be cool with Melody?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Older folks have their ways,” Wash said, but his mind was already on something else. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They hunted the charmed folk,” Gram said, eyes narrowing to a knife’s edge. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

That is why he chose a pseudonym for me: Gul Makai, which means “cornflower” and is the name of a heroine in a Pashtun folk story. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Not his fault. There aren’t enough middle-class black folks to go around,” Bill said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She’d won the lottery, she said, and she believed someone was trying to kill her because white folks had been coming around asking questions about her life in Clover and her family, especially Henrietta. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Word spread around the neighborhood, and folks think she’s the witness they been talking ’bout on the news.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Ay, sir, free enough for honest folks. Mr. Kirwin is a magistrate, and you are to give an account of the death of a gentleman who was found murdered here last night.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can have your own route, selling supplies to farmers in the country. You’ll make a bundle. Or you can get a job in No folk. You can move there.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other times I would climb a tree and watch the folks dumb enough to travel at night, their whispers too loud, their reactions too slow. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I still couldn’t figure out how or why white folks got their privileges and power automatically, even though we had to struggle and fight for ours, inch by inch by inch. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It played “The River Shannon” and New York’s own folk song, “The Sidewalks of New York.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ’while, it comes to you that they clean forgot that there were young folks right behind ’em and things get said you ain’t looking to hear. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Did the folks inside the buildings know a plane had crashed? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He still didn’t go to meet the ferry in the afternoon like most folks, or hang around Kellam’s after supper matching water stories, or go to church. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many more folk ditties, some mean, others filthy, all of them cruel. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also means service will be extra long ’cause black folk just love celebrating that man. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

More people fled every day, including the wives of General Washington and Colonel Knox and Brigadier Greene, her that folks said was such a big flirt. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were dark orange folks sitting next to medium orange folks sitting next to light orange folks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

About folks who called sauerkraut “liberty cabbage” in order to swallow it down with their supper. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ma was right, the best these colored folk could do is imitate white people. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Course, most folks couldn’t afford a car, and besides there weren’t no highways then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cops just wanted to arrest folks, to feel like they were doing something. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He’d go on with his sermon for too long, five minutes or more, preaching about the evils of hate and reminding me how hate had hurt folks back in our old home, the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I dash across the street, dodging the folks gathering in the road. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Then let folks keep their quarrel with Bill. Matt has two or three sons in the Union Army. Why should he and his family suffer for Bill’s action?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I say polite as I can, “Not a school full a just white people. But where the colored and the white folks is together.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Cabin eleven was too nervous to have sword class with me after what I’d done to the Ares folks in the woods, so my lessons with Luke became one-on-one. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I sure don’t want Cold Sassy folks to sound like a bunch of Yankees. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That’s right, folk paid to play at the Eolian, not the other way around. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We were never very demonstrative in our family; poor folk who toil and are full of cares are not so. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clean hooked up with some folks who told him about the Tigros posse. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks move aside; others, some drunk, some space cadets, I’ve got to push. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The babies stays with this woman whilst the folks is at work. That’s her address. You got any more questions? I needs to get back to work.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Man, I couldn’t believe it, I’d slept as long as those rich folks in the moving pictures! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

And we didn’t have to pay nothing for it, it was gave to us by other folks that use to be slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Now the Captains of the West led their host towards the City, and folk saw them advance in line upon line, flashing and glinting in the sunrise and rippling like silver. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Some also wrote new songs in a "folk" style that enjoyed some popularity, particularly in the 1960's. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There were hoops and hollers from children and growned folks both, screams that had you thinking someone was looking death right in the throat but that quick turned to laughs that were kind of ’shamed-sounding. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“It was terrible, Lanesha. Never seen so many folks. People sleeping in the stands, on chairs, cots. Smelled real bad.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It's too early to start using the h-word, but one thing is for sure: This girl is headed our way, folks. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d have to explain all that to her folks because they might be prejudiced. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yep. Daniel ain’t a murderer like the rest of these folks, he’s just a man trying to play the hand that life dealt him.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Old folks wouldn’t sit on stoops and park benches. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was educated in a one-room schoolhouse and raised on a farm in Henrico County, near Richmond, Virginia, and his family, the Jordans, were easygoing folks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The castle folk will turn on us soon as the fight begins." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Inside are three shamblers: two men and one woman, all white folks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Those are the places all over the country where folks sell and drink bootlegged alcohol and hope to not get caught by the law. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Organizers invited an exhilarating mix of performers: there would be rock and roll, rhythm and blues, folk and country. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And if there was one thing he didn’t like more than black folks in general, it was black men in particular. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By spring, she traded for shares of folks’ seed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

This is an example of F Major Pentatonic in the folk song “Great Big House.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“She told me folks are thinking of us—they know we’re not the enemy of America. Know that we’re not an Other, that were the Us, too.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m weary of these superstitious country folk, and the ...” Someone added wood to the fire and I lost my father’s words in the crackling that followed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I knew that folks with enough money didn’t have to share a bed and I should be happ\\ in my new home. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Watch can make the free folk bleed, but in the end we cannot hope to stop them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“For folks without cars. You should get your grandma over to the stadium soon as you can.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And even though it’s not fair, Black folks are followed more often than others. A friend of mine filed a lawsuit a few years ago for a young man—for this very thing.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The table was just full of good things folks had brought in, and I ate some fried chicken and a piece of lemon meringue pie. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The boy started talking slow, having a hard time getting the words out, “My...ma named...me Samuel...but most...folks...calls me...Sammy.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder how grown folks know so doggone much just by looking at you. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Shucks, that was the kind of name that was enough to make you forget folks had ever called you Buddy, or even Clarence. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The fever was gone, folk around town declared happily. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

‘Few of that fairest folk are ever seen in the Shire. Not many now remain in Middle-earth, east of the Great Sea. This is indeed a strange chance!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The English Dancing Master, John Playford’s compendium of catchy regional folk songs and dances, was the most successful musical publication of Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I will keep working on this, Moose. I promise you I will. But I don’t want to give you folks false hope.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks were betting it was her handsome stepfather. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He told folks my arm and my eye were so true that I could knock the spots off a ladybug without harming her atall if I took the notion to do so. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It always changes folks, and sometimes it brings out dirt and meanness dat even de person didn’t know they had in ’em theyselves. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Cousin Turk. He delivers fertilizer to folks all over the county.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Nothing any jury can do to bring Emmett back, but they sure can let folks in the Delta know that things are changing. Changing at last.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

‘I’ve heard tell of folk with three names, but I never saw one before.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told a tale about how one old range hog had caught him when he was a baby and his folks got there just barely in time to save him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the way,” Ben added, “nice call saying that Radar’s folks are overprotective.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sorting in the laundry, making beds in white folks’ houses, stemming in the tobacco plant—those were black jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There’s always somebody like him, looking to make folks miserable. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what they say, folks ain’t ever truly clean once they been on that mess.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Funny how death can bring out the nicest side in some folks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I limped back to Anker’s and found the common room buzzing with excited folk talking about the fire in the Fishery. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cops seemed to arrest black folks at random most of the time, just scooping people up and carting them off for the most nonsensical offenses. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With the wealthy folk, it seems to me that they do flower gardens and big lawns. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I sure did. Boy, I like it here. I want to live here forever. A farm of my own. Cows. Poor folk can’t get things like that over in England.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black and purple benches, highest and most distant from the sand, were crowded with freedmen and other common folk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Thousands of the free folk are gathered there, trapped and starving, and we have had reports of dead things in die wood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was only some kind of folk legend, a warning used by mothers when youngsters were fractious or disobedient. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A moan came from the stockade as the free folk saw their hope afire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All week the donations trickled in for the Spencer family, coming from the Riverside Road folks, as well as from the larger community. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were at least eight, ten white folks here! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hard to believe Biddy didn’t take a whipping stick to folks that look at her that way all the time. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For the old man died in that hour and fell upon his face; and no other tidings of the ancient dwellers in the mountains have our folk ever learned. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Muzoo, I ask you, have you felt the freedom of the Lord? Have you felt it? He’s nodding, folks. Is that a yes, Muzoo?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The song “A Ram Sam Sam,” for example, is a traditional Moroccan folk song that contains many simple repeating patterns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

All these folks I’ve never met became gods over my life. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He probably would have eaten more, but Reyna announced that the senate would now convene in the city, and all the folks in togas got up to leave. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We didn’t jump the broom like the old folks used to do. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest I gave to my family and other Lake folks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

You can give them land and mercy, but the free folk choose their own kings, and it was Mance they chose, not you. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And don’t be a stranger! Them folks back home ain’t nearly as fun as you. Betcha we can stir up a right amount of trouble, sure we can!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But those little folks knew things I didn’t have a clue on. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just a maintenance tech here, folks, heading home after a long night of rebooting routers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And I don’t reckon that these folk can do much more to help us, magic or no. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“White bread? So that is what one eats in Lublin. White bread is for rich folk, not for farmers.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lots of folk today don’t mind a black nanny or black limo driver. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“That would explain a great deal. I hear you’ve had a lot of sick folks in this region whose condition improved.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

White people busy celebrating they independence from England July 4th, say Harpo, so most black folks don’t have to work. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a pretty new stadium and folks around here are proud of it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s true—black folks do dream in color. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In college chapels I would listen to folk singing and see plain altars draped with bright applique banners: JOY! Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she drawled, sighing, “I guess folks just have to love each other naturally. You can’t make ’em.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aint the sign of it laying right there on that bed. Aint the sign of it been here for folks to see fifteen years now.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess by then most folks, white folks anyway, had all forgotten. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, within the range of the boisterous and the silent there are still folks brown, red, and yellow on this continent and elsewhere who honor and respect the true message of Malcolm X Shabazz. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

People are allowed to bicycle at night in New York City, folks. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It should, perhaps, but it doesn’t. People are bloodthirsty. It’s the nature of simple folk. Blood excites them, and they love to be excited. It takes them out of their boring lives.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I felt no need to give the greeting Big Ma had taught my sisters and me to give all grown folk, especially to white folk. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We were hunter folk, and we saw hunters and dogs, bears and young women, all manner of things of interest to us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The informal touches; the handshaking; the folk music; the insistence upon union—all these changes are aimed at serving Catholics who no longer live in a Catholic world. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any more than it’s proper to wear all your bonnets and gowns and ribbons at once, that folks may know you’ve got them,” added Jo, and the lecture ended in a laugh. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could just see her sitting among all them black folks catching the Holy Ghost in the pews around her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And some folks in Cedar started to question whether the mountain was really going to erupt after all. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

All names for one of the most fascinating folk heroes I’d ever heard of. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes it was like watching oil and water: white folks on one side, blacks on the other. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ever since I’ve been at Reardan, and seen how great parents do their great parenting, I realize that my folks are pretty good. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Piece of sky-iron of that size, if you take less than eighteen talents you’re cutting a hole in your own purse. Jewelers will buy it, or rich folk who want it for the novelty.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That I did what they taught me to do, take care of the folks I love. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

There was another ten or fifteen white folk with guns, sticks, and scowls too. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Annabeth saw couples with babies, toddlers clinging to their parents’ legs, even some elderly folks in a combination of Roman robes and modern clothes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Ares folks got up, and Clarisse muttered a dazed curse. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She cautioned them about their dealings with white people because she had seen firsthand some of the things white men had done to Clanton’s black folk. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Emma Collins and Sidney and Johnny had to run through the Settlement to let folks know. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“From top to bottom. Papa always built well. He said he wanted a house that could hold a herd of thundering elephants—that was what he always called Mama’s folks. He never liked them much.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

While lots of white folks would buy moonshine from Norris, you could tell that at the same time everyone thought he was shiftless and no account. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, honey, let me tell you something. You don’t survive, and that’s what I been doing all these years, you don’t survive sitting around expecting folks to act right.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My folks and the Levinsons close in around me, and together we sweep past the sheriff and the vlogger into the school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Many women, children, and timid folk had spent the night hidden in the clay pits. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d always listen to what folk had to say, and if they made sense, he’d weigh their words, he wouldn’t jus’ toss someone’s thoughts out ’cause they wasn’t agreeing with his. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“We shouldn’t have traveled so much today—but y’know, putting some distance between you and the Skiz folks wasn’t such a bad idea.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They were black people and they were buying papers to read about how the white folks were trying to track him to earth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ted's folks walked in wearing jeans and matching Disney World T-shirts, and they handed Dad a cold six-pack of Miller Light to help the party along. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you know, younger black folk don’t really do code switching anymore. The middle-class kids can’t speak Ebonics and the inner-city kids speak only Ebonics and they don’t have the fluidity that my generation has.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Yo, you scared me. Don't be creeping up on folks like that. Get you messed up, man." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I guess they could sell flour to folks that didn’t have a good crop. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The school had tried to make the Golden Day respectable, but the local white folks had a hand in it somehow and they got nowhere. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry about everything that’s happened to you and your folks. It’s unreal.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I know most folks like to say a dead person looks like they’re sleeping, but I didn’t think so. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Tom Tate was elected the new county sheriff days after the murder took place, and folks started to question whether he was up to the job. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The sights, the smells, the rhythm of the folks, the feeling in the air. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All the more reason why folks want to buy what I have to sell. I want this done quickly. I have other business to tend to.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody living in it yet, but it’s there for when the white folks is ready to move somewhere else new. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It’s a little mind-boggling how nice people are, folks I don’t even know. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Most folks who take a trip send postcards. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t like folks could see them, lined up along the track, waiting for who knew what. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I mean, black folks can get creative with names, but Love? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Before Taran could warn Eilonwy not to be imprudent, the door of the throne, room burst open and a crowd of folk pressed in. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Nowadays eight children sounds like a lot to most folks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It seems to be a record of the fortunes of Balin’s folk,’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Work needn’t be suffering, it could unite folks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Conjured folks can conjure you,” the boy’s mother always said, “if you get yourself plain carried off by their soft spell-talk.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pass was just like gone, it was another one of those words grown folks use instead of dead. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s folks that call me Pastor Howard. But you can call me Shady.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘Look here, Paul, it has been decided this work must be done by apprentices, strangers—folk little known about Boston. The East India Company may bring suit. If you are recognized ‘I’ll risk it.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scarlet fever was taking away a lot of folks at that time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These others, the strange pale creatures that lived in their alien unlife, weren’t considered folks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I want order down there," Supercargo boomed, "and if there's white folks down there, I wan's double order." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids and old folks get the wonderful job of walking along behind and picking up all of God’s creatures that got burnt to a crisp. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Same to you. And your folks. Tell Mr. Dead and your mother I said Merry Christmas.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As folks came down and sat at the table, I learned their names by listening. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nighttime, after all, and folks would be asleep. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crept along under cover of the hedge towards the big dwelling of the mouse folk. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“That’s not for you and me,” Penelope said, pointing to all the fancy white folks climbing out of their cars curbside. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then Reverend Deal took it up, saying the same folks who had sense enough to avoid Shadrack’s call were the ones who insisted on drinking themselves to death or womanizing themselves to death. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The noise was such that folks stopped what they were doing and ran out of doors to stare. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wrote him a short memo, Gone—then added—to my folks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He had no history of crime or violence, and for most folks who knew him, robbery just didn't make sense for a man who worked as hard as Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Being a porter was one of the best jobs that colored folk could hope to get. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These horrible folk destroyed all Odysseus’ ships except the one he himself was in—which had not yet entered the harbor when the attack was made. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps, perhaps,” he said, smiling, “but I see lots of folk. Hard to remember them all.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It was mostly the colored folks that fought the shamblers. No surprise there. Government pays to send them to those fancy schools while real men like me are left to fend for ourselves.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He felt the narrow orbit of her life: from her room to the kitchen of the white folks was the farthest she ever moved. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rebuffed from his fine feelings, Milkman matched her cold tone: “You loved those white folks that much?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

That didn't mean that he wasn't very concerned about what he was hearing from folks on the row, especially about race and the kind of jury he would get. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Is that what Ole told you? He didn’t know—is that it? Was I supposed to say, ‘Ole, there’s these folks made a illegal agreement with my husband hands over seven acres to them’? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“More like white folks than some white folks.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He did not wish to suggest in anyway that the Laphams had any part in the imposture—they were very humble, honest, pious folk. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around here though, folks in jail get T-shirts in their honor just like folks in the grave. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He must be one ’em folk that believe it’s bad luck to take a bath in May, June, July, or August plus any month that’s got the letter r in its spelling. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The death of Sula Peace was the best news folks up in the Bottom had had since the promise of work at the tunnel. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most folks would drink their free ice water and shop a bit before moving on. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Where the well-to-do folks live? They have their own stores, paved roads...You've probably seen the path that leads to the side of town, lined with electric street lamps?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

One of the other men said, “He got done with us and said he was looking to bet for some real money, said he wanted to go up ’gainst some white folks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Didn’t no white folk dare talk to him with that kind of tone down in South Carol-liney, and this colored man had the nerve? The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She just took it as part of the unspoken rules of life, the same as don’t back-talk elders and clear off the sidewalk for white folks to get by. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Says the man ain’t got many friends ’cause he don’t have no idea that a good lie tolt at the right time can go a long way to soothing folks’ ruffled feathers. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The two old folks were so pleased and excited by the success of their hospitality that only very slowly a strange thing dawned upon them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they stood there with the folks backed off with handkerchiefs to their faces, until in a minute the girl came up with that newspaper package. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look, I think it's a good time for a break, folks. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do folks around here feel about all this talking back to the Russians?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never with both my folks away all night. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folk say they kill ’em, other folk say different. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s shy about speaking English in front of folks he doesn’t know well,” Perilee told me to explain his silence. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In class, folks don’t like to sit near me, either. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Seemed as if folks were seeing German spies and seditionists under every patch of buffalo grass. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What if folks find out Niceville is Jackson or figure out who who.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I hear tell that lots of black folk are free up there.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My folks got a call this morning. Mr. Christensen is pressing charges against me for ‘assaulting’ his son.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We westbound folk made do with poorly patched corrugated metal that leaked rainwater the color of old blood. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, some of ’em are the ancestors of us shadowshapers, some are just other folks that passed on and then became spirits. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

For hours and hours he sang these folk songs he had picked up over there; really significant songs that proved my theory that music should basically be an instrument of social protest and expression. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And spies, and other folk who do not wish to reveal their business during the dark hours of night.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

How ’bout you chooses to send a wire to tell ’em folk back home to send you some help?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“The only thing that worried him was you folks having to work so hard—especially Marly,” Chrissie said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Aw, them folks go to church every day in the week, he thought. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘We must hasten south, lord. Let us leave these wild folk to their fancies. Or let us bind them and take them to the king.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The lights came on just as I peeped farther around the curtain and saw Aunt Loma trying to push through the crowd to get to our folks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Nice. Maybe I don’t have to worry about you so much after all. Your folks are great, you’re at Hudson, you’re going to Yale.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Around here, some folks speak French, some speak in Creole, and they is some that speak Spanish.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of those fancy folks were studying philosophy and such, and from what I can tell they made fine shambler chow. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Pleased to make your acquaintance, Fred. Now then—do you folks know where there might be some dry food? I’m starving.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

‘Or thinking of it? All your folk should have been inside Udûn before yesterday evening. You know that. Up you get and fall in, or I’ll have your numbers and report you.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

These days, guitarists who want to play a well-known pop or folk song can do so simply by reading a chart with the names of the chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It is a big country, with room enough for the Indians, for black folk to find their own place, and for pretty little white girls with dirty feet!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the people who were too terrible for Heaven got stuck on earth with all the living folks, everyone just making each other unhappy forever and ever. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She either did not know or had forgotten that the son, William Henry, had no brothers and no “old folks.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks think that creatures like that don’t have feelings, but I think he missed his master and I went easy on him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drawing room on the second floor wasn’t a room where folks sat with paints and colored chalk to draw pictures, like I’d figured. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hat wasn’t a cop hat or a soldier hat, it was the kind of cap men wore who drive fancy cars for rich folks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Can I go and peep at the white folks?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t say my last name, because, in my old neighborhood, folks knew the Barneses were really poor. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“These fools always trying to guess what kind of money folks got based on their caskets.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I could smell smoke, but it wasn't too strong, and I recognized a few faces from the neighborhood—faces of some friendly folks, and faces of some not-so-friendly folks. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

From what I know about folks I think it’s more likely one of her ancestors stole it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

‘Turn about! If these fine folk are going our way, then we will take another. Get on, or I’ll give you no crust for your supper!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“The engine on that thing sounded like a bucket of nails in a blender. I knew you kids wouldn’t get very far,” he said, “so I ran and fetched your folks.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“And I am sure it would cheer the old folks if you told them.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Come on in, folks,” he said, moving out of our way and motioning us inside. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that something? Guess your folks are doing well and your daddy’s happy.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“No sense at all. Not when there’s folks like lantha Wells needing help at her boardinghouse.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You got it. No bank. They don’t give loans to black folks.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

‘And would you have your proud folk say of you: “There goes a lord who tamed a wild shieldmaiden of the North! The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

These folks are the Kings of the Earth! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at them now as folks chased in and out, getting ready, it was hard for Cora to imagine a time when the fourteen cabins hadn’t been there. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As if it was a casual afterthought, I added, “And don’t tell your folks about Miss Love stayin’ in the comp’ny room at Grandpa’s house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes! We got invited to this fancy dinner party on account of saving so many folks at the lecture a couple of weeks ago.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Another journalist, Brad Darrach—who Fischer was suing—said that when he walked with Fischer, he felt as if he were Dopey, one of the Seven Dwarfs, trying to keep up with the big folks. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of course I knew he was a founder, but I knew also that it was advantageous to flatter rich white folks. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every single one gets a little slap on the wrist and goes right back into society, like it’s all good. Black folks or poor folks get on drugs?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Where, then, if I may ask? You’ve the look of the Ridge people—or maybe the Crescent folk, now that I think about it.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Every year, folks say, “Hurricane season is going to be bad.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Some old folks, some young folks, some middle folks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sheets are just too personal a thing for folks who aren’t kin to be fooling with. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dad was always saying that one day the Government would come after folks who resisted its brainwashing, who didn’t put their kids in school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Almost all of their neighbors, and even some of the white folks, came at one time or another to complain of Gabriel’s wrongdoing. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“The mayor says folks ought to think about leaving New Orleans. People are packing up.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s getting to the point where folks can’t step outside the Thicket without one of us gods escorting them. Even then it can get iffy.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t really blame him, I don’t think I’d be real happy about sharing my brown sugar and my folks with any strange kids either. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

"I'll try not to be too long. And if any of the fair folk sing their silly songs at you, for heaven's sake, don't throw your crutch at them. They'll only steal it." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Music blasts around us, folks show off their cars. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was in the very sea-roads of those white barbaric folk. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was educated in a one-room schoolhouse and raised on a farm in Henrico County, near Richmond, Virginia, and his family, the Jordans, were easygoing folks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks said rubbing snow on frostbite was the best cure, but it seemed to me that getting the flesh unfrozen made more sense. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

For this kind, medicine folk would have to sing certain songs while they harvested the tobacco plants in the mountains. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

With a sort of whimper, she said, “Pa, don’t you care what folks are go’n say?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Seems to me those “enlightened men” worry more about keeping the mayor happy than the plight of colored folks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Or to those signs—“Beware of the Dog”—that suburban folks too cheap to invest in a ferocious mutt, but nevertheless terrified of burglars, displayed on their lawns. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I’m glad too, but folks have asked me about it so often that now I wonder too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old folks tried to make her happy. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Walking home, the noisy women shook their old heads and sang a folk song that made them laugh uproariously: Marry a rooster, follow a rooster. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her motel catered to a patchwork of local folks who were down on their luck. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She could make potions to give folks luck to win a court case or to make their boss less angry. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Listen. This aint for outside talking. I dont mind telling you because you and me’s the same folks, come long and short.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I'm not like most adopted kids. Most don't know their folks. But I know my mom." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I know that I was forced to do some kind of folk steps to music in fourth grade, and I now realize that I was tragically uncoordinated even at that. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Our vows ... we are sworn to protect the realm ...” “Once the free folk are settled in the Gift, they will become part of the realm,” Jon pointed out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Fears that townsfolk don’t appreciate. Every place has its little superstitions, and everyone laughs at what the folk across the river think.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mother talks about folks who are well-meaning. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Colored folks got more sense than Camp. Lord, Will, I had to show him the roach before he knew what I was mad about.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“So was my wife. Then finally we said okay, but we told her, ‘You need to talk to us like we’re regular folk. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s just sometimes, it sure seems like Black folks get way too big of a helping of that unfair pie.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Which was saying something because she was annoyed about more things than most folks Ophie had met. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mud was four feet deep in some houses, and folks’ pickups and mobile homes were swept away. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Stella, Jojo, run go tell everybody to bring a little potluck if they can. Tell ’em to bring the younguns, bring the old folks. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Jon said, “Your Grace, the leader of the free folk has agreed to my terms.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You ate something bad on that trip yesterday? I told you about trying new food. They probably took you to some fancy restaurant, ’round all them white folks, and you ain’t know how to act!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We've lost quite a few of our folks over the past few weeks, not just to shambler attacks but also to a group of men calling themselves Survivalists. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After folks got finished making a list of my problems, they might take time to notice that I have a fairly nice smile and deep dimples—I think my dimples are cool. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It's a good thing the Lord did something for this country; the folks that live on it never have. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merry saw many folk standing, looking up and muttering; all their faces were grey and sad, and some were afraid. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My folks let her go, just like that, after all the time she’d been so good to us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You come here, boy,” he said, “and see what them white folks done done to your brother.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Not my parents, not my brother and sister, not even the folks down at the Gobbler Cafe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the kind of folks that never went anywhere in their lives, so somebody different, they wanted to know about. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We felt like we had to tell folks it was Miss Skeeter, though. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It's a long time I been loving folk. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Bigger said, feigning reluctance, “he told me that some day there wouldn’t be no rich folks and no poor folks. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was only when she turned to leave that she saw the cluster of black folk at the lip of the cemetery. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes the rules are different for black folks, baby,” she says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Except for the few blacks still huddled by the river bend, and some undemolished houses on Carpenter’s Road, only rich white folks were building homes in the hills. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

According to folk legend, an Armenian princess lived on the island. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Rachel put aside her work, and even Matthew came to the door to see the young folks off. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was ironic, but liberals believed in the South’s racial Manichaeanism almost as completely as Jesse Helms—they just aligned themselves with the folks on the darker side of the color line. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It ain’t nothing much, Bigger. I used to work over in that section, not far from where the Loeb folks lived.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Surely you’ve got something better to do besides speculating about white folks’ silliness,” she said. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a quiet voice, for folks were sleeping, I said, “Sure, help yourself. Ain’t nobody sitting there.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The folk of Winterfell had seen this sight half a hundred times, but doubtless it looked queer to the guests, some of whom were more curious than polite. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“See that, you stop saying what folks will do and what they won’t.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

About it the ground was busy with folk going to and fro; a wide road ran from it south-east to join the Morgul-way, and along it many lines of small black shapes were hurrying. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They spent their days hoping and yearning for someone who could see them, a connection to the world of the living, for it was rare that such folks came along anymore. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When folks are telling stories, the neighborhood is warm. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Also, it would take Mama and Papa a month to convince folks that, no, I wasn’t at the trestle with a mill girl. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

All the charmed folk are there, and I’m leading them in some kind of game that involves hopping from rock to rock down the stream. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It’s not until an hour or two after each and every one of the incapacitated folks has been cleaned, fed, and parked outside their doors that it’s safe to poke your head out. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got a new arrival. This is Ruby, folks. Six hundred pounds of fun to save our sorry butts. This gal is gonna sell us some tickets.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

This was some of that talk that growned folks do where they’re saying one thing out loud but you’re supposed to be hearing lots of other things at the same time! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I said, “Shucks, I’m not all that young, I’m going to be eleven on November fourteenth, and I’m not skinny, I’m wiry. Some folks think I’m a hero.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Nobody seems to think it odd that an old man is standing in his slippers on the sidewalk right outside an old folks’ home. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I mean, like, I thought folks would be sad to be in such a tough situation for Thanksgiving,” I went on hurriedly, trying to recover. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ballets and Broadway musicals and entertainments of that sort will flourish everywhere and will probably make the common folk happier than did the grim, hostile, fascistic pronouncements of their former leaders. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, 'I don't aim to birth no sin for folks to look at all the rest of my life, and I don't aim for Matty Lou to neither.' Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Thing is, the folks who lived here were at war, like it or no. We're not. Night's Watch takes no part, so no man's our enemy." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He lived with his folks, staying in his childhood room. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I think some of ’em must’ve, ’cause once they commenced tearing him apart, it do seem a good bit of ’em jus’ stood to the side cheering folk on and didn’t join in. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I said, “Yes, ma’am,” but I was thinking what I really needed to do was get back to South Carol-liney, where folk don’t act so strange and uppity. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Cause after the book come out, if folks find out it was us, I probably never get to see these kids again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When we finally got around the last comer and could see the door and folks going in it seemed like a bubble busted and people started laughing and talking. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Spoke to a lot of folks since this weekend. I think the administration at your school is gonna be overwhelmed on Friday.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But mostly folks are so busy, streets so loud, people miss seeing them. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Predmore didn’t even mention Grandpa and Miss Love, so likely Mama was all wrong about folks being scandalized. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a telling me something else. In the next valley there’s a village by a lake where the folk are troubled by a ghost.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s doing this to pay me back because all my folks are living and all hers—but one—have gone to glory. I never heard of anything more spiteful.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Especially to the old folks who depend on this food.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They had their own special places in Harlem that they went to that not many Black folks went to. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

People fear what they don't understand, and let's face it, the world of a geek isn't something most people can understand, if only because it's a complicated world filled with smart folks. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy told me the word but said it was a building for white folks, and that meant I couldn’t go in. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe Grandpa didn’t care what folks said or thought about him, but he cared a lot about Mama and Papa and Aunt Loma. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Plus I ain’t comforted dealing with white folks like you is. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The big spearwife narrowed her eyes and said, "If the crow would join the free folk, let him show us his prowess and prove die truth of him." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some of the folks didn’t have clean water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Did people sew their own clothes so they wouldn’t have to buy from white folk?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Time wears on, and the mists are blowing away, or would if you strange folk did not wreathe yourselves in smoke. What of the tale?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It’s a scandal, sending those poor kids out here on their own, expecting folks to take care of ’em—as if we don’t have our own burdens.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s bound to be people out there, and who knows what kind of mood they might be in. Sometimes folks get downright nasty when they think the world’s about to end.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I felt a little drunk with success, so I read the letters from the tax folks. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, you can’t be worried about what folks think, baby,”Jay says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

You just can’t explain a thing like that to your folks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Free folk don’t follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic,” the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Can’t no one beat the Brown Bomber,” folks laugh as they pass, like Joe Louis is fighting for all us colored folks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You were right, we shouldn’ta come here. No good comes of meddling with these sort of folk.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“For folks who’re supposed to be so powerful, you aren’t too bright, are you? No wonder it took you so long to track me down. ” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some folks tagged along at a distance and followed the procession into the heart of town. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks it’s horrible that my parents didn’t videotape Mr. Neck’s class or stick up for me the way his folks did. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Leroy dying, the Preacher getting killed, the smells, the way the chains rattled, and the naked folks looking so scared and whupped and tired, it was just too much. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

So repeatedly, the white folks asked him to get up, but he refused to leave. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I figured Mr. Tuttle was picturing me cut to pieces and himself down at my house trying to settle, cheap, my folks’ claim against the railroad. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Good folks, with a little edge to them, as my mother puts it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to tell me where I can get one. It’s the only way I can get you folks away from here.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say we stink. But my ma says white folks smell like dead folks.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sidetrack. How are you folks doing this evening?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For as Jeanne’s folks were out in the fields, working in the hot sun, a snake slithered into their house. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like how the magical creatures shimmer into sight just like the charmed folk used to do for me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Everywhere I turn, there’s something that says Mattie. For some folks that might be a comfort. But not for me.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I look around me—at folks whispering, pausing beneath trees, some folks, silent or crying, looking into square tower graves. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The folks were in Paris—yeah, Paris, France—celebrating my mom’s birthday. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But early in the morning like this, when the janitors and the folks who do the cooking are just making their way in, the door is unlocked. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He ain’t breathing, and most folks would usually assume that means he’s not getting up again. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My first night, I had eaten in the kitchen, but I was separated because the rest of the folks was in the dining room. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was counting on the commotion of the Queen’s ball to distract folks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staying a child forever is not as cool as folks may think. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I’m starting to think that the charmed folk were only ever real because Gram said they were. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes folk get hurt from other people’s men hanging around.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes folks who have things to say don’t say them.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Silently he took his from its bag, set it with the other three, then stood back to look at the silken, bejeweled, perfumed folk crowding about him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's all the white folks, not just one. They all against us. Every stinking low-down one of them." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to see the white folks then and they gave me help. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not enough folks by my reckoning. I thought we could go over there and talk some sense.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on in, folks, and enjoy a good drink made by our expert mixologists to your exact specifications.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colored folks with pale skin—light enough to look white—but not white according to another one of the unspoken rules. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Next thing I know, I’m having to file papers on dead folk, both black and white.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

That, at least, was what the folk of the graveyard who had been on the hillside that night claimed had happened. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

"Well, long before he was king over the free folk, Bael was a great raider." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My boys are opening up the armory next to the generator shack for everyone to equip themselves. Even the colored folks,” he says, giving me a pointed look. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The tables full of colored folks are farthest away from the podium, and it feels intentional. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The better-off folk of Welch had not exactly flocked to our part of town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“All the colored folk on both sides of the creek knew. No one bothered to tell me.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Besides, the boy’s folks said it was an awful war, cursed it, spat on it when they could. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Strong boy,” “Handsome just like his daddy,” folks been saying since the day I was born, but I never took a liking to the work Daddy did in the fields. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Your folk must not remain on the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Naturally they would all tell their white folks, and two days from now, everybody in town would know Mr. Hoyt Tweedy could afford more food than he needed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Over time, folks rebuilt, families healed, but the evidence remained like a funny-shaped cloud that hung above our heads, occasionally blocking the sun with its memories. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“What do you think the old folks are talking about?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then they all began to stand as well, and hug their children, other folks’ children, and even one another. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Che worked for the Butlers—rich white folks, you know—but she was a good midwife in those days. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the patio, the visiting relatives have left, and only the compound folks remain, talking in low, preoccupied voices. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I’d hate to see these old folks move on to the next world, but for some of them it might be for the best.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Do your folks know you are selling these papers?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew some folks that shined shoes at the barbershop. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get ready, folks!” a voice said on the loudspeaker, startling me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mama didn't like it when folks questioned her choices, and Miss Alice was treading dangerous ground. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the South his white folks would desert him; he would be discussed far and wide, and all of the trustees' money couldn't prop up his sagging prestige. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry said, “Too bad. I’d have liked to see him in the pet show. Step right up, folks, come and see Calpurnia Virginia Tate and her giant pet moth!” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been back to Chicago in ten years; I was an only child, both folks gone, who needed Chicago? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘That is no name for a Man that you give. And strange too is your raiment. Have you sprung out of the grass? How did you escape our sight? Are you elvish folk?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Besides the fuss with Elmer and others, Traft and his pals were going around pressing folks to join the Montana Loyalty League. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But all the rest of my folks that I know about were Scotch-Irish.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"There's no going north. Half the fields are burnt, and what folks are left are walled up inside their holdfasts. One bunch rides off at dawn and another one shows up by dusk." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A lot of soldiers had been returning from the World War with some new ideas that didn’t set too well with some white folks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most folks are ignorant on purpose or else too busy, too scared. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

If you ask me, neither the mayor nor any of these other folks were taking things seriously enough. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t many folks on the street, but every one we seent, both black and white, first give us looks of surprise that turnt dirty a second or two after. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Then do your work and stop minding grown folks’ business.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Romanian folk dancing? Aristotelian literary criticism? Or perhaps—Mr. Jankowski—you completed a performance degree on the accordion?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

These proper folk, who had always maintained an appearance of peaceful reserve, now rolled in the aisles with abandon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We weave between people, dodging bicycles, babies in strollers, and old folks taking their sweet time. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“Now I am a man that can read and for some folks that makes a difference to them. For some folks, it made a big difference to them when I turned one hundred.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Roughly two thousand years ago. The nomadic folk who roamed the foothills around the Shalda Mountains were brought together under one chieftain.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You boys use your own judgment. You know more about it than those New York folks do.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hmm. Still, you don’t need to be telling folks that part. Now, don’t chip nothing.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Call your folks and get them to come sign the form. Or a guardian. Then you can go inside.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Massa brung him back after a few days, and he put a iron collar round the boy’s neck so folks would know he was a runaway and not free to be on the roads.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we had been talking, ordinary city folk had begun to creep out of their houses. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The club’s a low, white building with prickle bushes around it, not nearly so fancy as folks talk about it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Nearby, a group around the piano were singing folk songs with more volume than melody. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are poor folk,” she said, “but poverty isn’t so bad when you’re willing to own up to it, and a contented spirit is a great help, too.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was one thing Tateh didn’t like more than gentiles, it was black folks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ofttimes I’d find him reading a book; he would stop and in a joking, wistful, and cynical manner ape the antics of the white folks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe that is the reason why. I guess there is good and bad white folks, just like there is with colored.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The covers have all these folks in bright-colored Spandex fighting one another. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As one man commented with admiration: “When the Ragens announce an entertainment it means an entertainment, and folks know it.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Old folks are okay, but I never know what to speak to them. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Trees do talk to some folks, the ones we know we can trust. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most folks thought, as Miss Effie Belle Tate put it, that Grandpa was “both rich and well-to-do.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Cotter Pyke’s galleys were reporting ever-increasing numbers of free folk along the wooded shores to the north and east of the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But I know how they talk and pray and sometimes cry about the way some white folks mistreat us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long for folks to learn about the ugly word carved into my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When they’re in a hurry, most folk push their mount too hard too soon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The folks who had been milling about in confusion now sprinted toward the entryway. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Few folk looked in their direction, pretending that the noise came from the throats of the crows circling overhead. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like my aunt used to say,” Elizabeth said, smiling timidly, “she used to say, folks sure better not do in the dark what they’s scared to look at in the light.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At the door Mr. Chris said, “Now you folks don’t have to leave us again until the leaves turn.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Horses in a house of the Lord made some folks grumble, including Lady Seymour. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the bus—officially, anyone could sit anywhere they wanted now, but most of the time, the colored folks stayed to the back. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Someone's got to look after our folks," I replied. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was also a tireless collector and annotator of East European folk song, and is in fact one of the chief architects of a whole branch of music study known as ethnomusicology. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Now, everyone had shut their doors, praying and waiting, for it was said that the white folks would come tonight and set fire to all the houses, as they had done before. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The way folks up here look at it, though, that’s snitching. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you ask the white folks that?” she countered. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few friendly folks from our community waved as we passed by. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The songs are culled from folk, stage musicals, patriotic songs, Tin Pan Alley songs, culturally diverse songs, film songs, and religious songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“In the middle of town. All manner of folk were around to see it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘I suppose you done read in the paper about this Government Pincher business for old folks?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m keeping the club open so folks have a place to go.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks swear I throwed up so hard that desks and chairs rose up and floated out of the schoolhouse. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Look here, I’m keeping you folks up too late.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Typically, folk, blues, rock, marches, and Classical-era46 music is based on relatively straightforward chord progressions, but of course there are plenty of exceptions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I’d given it careful thought and decided that most folks had a sort of clock in their heads. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It was as if she despised the noisy crowds of common folk craning past the Praetorian Guards’ leather-clad shoulders for a glimpse of her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

This is an example of Dorian mode in “Scarborough Fair,” an English folk song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I didn't know exactly what had happened to Mrs. Williams, but I knew that here in Alabama, police dogs and black folks looking for justice had never mixed well. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

How many folks you see living like us, Negro or white? Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Dana,” said Sarah over her shoulder, “one of the white folks wants you. Go with Carrie.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her folks had come west from Amarillo, Texas, and had made a little money in the aircraft plants but not enough yet to get out of Cabrillo Homes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But nothing of the killing sort. These were normal folks.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We’re not ranchers, Mary Eve. We’ve got a few head of cattle. Not even enough to call a herd. Besides, it’s not like we’re the only folks taking such a deal.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Why you try to talk like white folks?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Lots of old folks is conjured or addled.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rich city folks, he’d say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn’t even see the stars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

All over Brooklyn, folks were heading out to their stoops and strolling the avenues to take in another warm New York night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The mountain folk erupted in a giant cheer. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Course he was wrong, and I told him so—nobody was going to harm him, regardless of what he’d done; folks around here aren’t like that. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not Elves; for the woodland folk were altogether noiseless in their movements. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As for “old folks”—well, he didn’t have any. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Sal takes orders at the counter and yells them to the folks in the back. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Uppity” is what folks back home would call her. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“But—” “This earthquake’ll bring out the best and worst in folk.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The armrests was carved in the shape of a couple of snarling lions and the wood was shiny and wore down from so many folk gripping on to it. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Or maybe you worry that folks would disapprove, but I don’t think they would, not if you two was married. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

By then, some other folks had turned and was listening in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With some folks, that first night, I never did get a real introduction. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She cook and wash and iron. Come here, gal. Let the folks see you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The folks around the table are glaring at me. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Folks can’t like folks just ’cause they has the same mama. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Father says the cops are out to get folks who act militant.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I worry that everyone will try to flee the same direction and the wall will end up a grand choke point, serving up panicked folks to the dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Ain’t you folks up here in Illinois a mite behind with yore crops this year, Aunt Ellen?” he called, his voice suggesting laughter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They call the careless folks who drop things by a cute name: litterbug. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if she was wondering just how good a time they’d had in New York City or worrying what folks would say if Grandpa told it at the store about Miss Love dancing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"The first bomb went off in your folks' coffee shop, right? Your mother and father work you pretty hard, don't they?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t see any white folks, just all kinds of colored people, some rushing past bringing books in, some bringing books out, some working at the front desk. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

This one didn’t have no benches in it to sit down on, so we were standing shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of folks from Chatham. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Tell you what, though. This country started going to hell when they stopped hanging folks. No gallows dirt. No gallows deals.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Many Langley folks joined the Space Task Group down at Cape Canaveral to see the flight in person. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Students didn’t let up for one minute, chirping on about my folks, my mother’s teaching, and things I considered personal and sacred. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At length they stirred and looked up, and began to search for anything that would give them tidings of Balin’s fate, or show what had become of his folk. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The white car was at the end of the train, folks said with plenty of seats and air clean and fresh. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It never went away in folk music, so whenever composers were trying to sound rustic, earthy or homesick for their native countryside, you could expect them to dip back into the modal well for inspiration. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On a warm Saturday we could hardly wait on customers for taking folks to ride. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

‘The Elves, sir. We had some talk last night; and they seemed to know you were going away, so I didn’t see the use of denying it. Wonderful folk, Elves, sir! Wonderful!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Genie tried not to be nosy—in grown folks’ business. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Same with the rocks and the houses and the horses and everything else that I could compare, but the growned folks could see big differences that waren’t plain to me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When folks came by to wish the minister well, they looked at Mrs. Buckminster with embarrassed eyes, and she, too, knew—though she had known all along, Turner supposed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Miss Skeeter say the peace dove be the sign for better times to come. Say folks is wearing em on they clothes out in California.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Number two, never tell folks my next move. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Some had long beards, some had scars, some had both; all worshiped the old gods of the north, those same gods worshiped by the free folk beyond the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He explained that part of the idea behind Cascadian was to get folks to eat whole foods instead of processed foods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Why did he and his folks have to live like this? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise was not to occupy her head thinking about those folks. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

After the program, people came up to me; most folks were very kind and expressed appreciation for my having taken the time to come and talk to them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Chilled me to think on all those folks dying in a fire—the beast that ate you whole. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I remembered all the stories we’d heard in classes about abolitionists and how they’d risk their lives for people who were just like these folks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There was seven or eight other folk already in their chairs. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Besides, Negroes made it difficult for regular folks like herself to get work. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to the Crossbars, folks. Who do we have the pleasure of entertaining tonight?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

This is it, folks, the championship of the Middle School Junior Varsity season is on the line—but hold on . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was lookin’ real happy like young folks do as have been allowed to attend a party.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes religious folks draw pretty deep lines in the sand. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Once I come to, some free folks up in the logging town was tending to me. A man and his wife, mighty fine folk. Took good care of me and didn’t want nothing in return.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I just know the common ordinary everyday names that folks call things around here.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks in the office said I should explain in my complaint that I was a civil rights attorney working on police misconduct cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t say words like cancer,” he told me, “and we don’t tell stories on dead folks.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Mr. Max. We all black and the white folks treat us the same.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't know. She hasn't been home in about three years, but she sent an e-mail to her folks last Christmas, and I got her e-mail address, and then I looked up her address and phone." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Few now remember them,’ Tom murmured, ‘yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folk that are heedless.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don't really know what to say about her—plus, I don't like talking about folks' moms. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“You know, Hattie, folks are looking at one another hard these days.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t think church folks know how to just “snack.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She look grateful I know my way around so she don’t have to ask like poor folk. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The folks who were involved in the hustle need to be careful ’bout what they say or even think ’bout doing.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then, we ask the new-free folks to, one by one, climb the ladder of the steeple and rub the bell with their left hand. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“She was here this past weekend since her folks was out of town.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After Sunday school, folks naturally asked where was Mr. Tweedy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

‘Yet in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom. I believe you are friends and folk worthy of honour, who have no evil purpose. You may go in.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Cant you get done with that moaning and play in the branch like folks. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces are familiar, but you don’t get names and life stories when you’re bagging folks’ groceries. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Evening, Mizz Simmons! And a merry Christmas to you too! The folk who brought me here came up the Mississippi a long time back.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“She said she saw you in Ernie’s Kitchen Shack with some white folks.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about the black folks his train carried up north, leaving everything they knew for an uncertain future. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Nature’s complicated that way. I know some folks who will only eat things that grow in the ground.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I had now crossed the boundary line of the Black Belt and had entered that territory where jobs were perhaps to be had from white folks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a few more white folks in finer clothing, and I'm starting to wonder why they ain’t storming the sheriff's office, asking where their loved ones are. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He waited on folks, her aunt said, furiously, as though he hoped the food they bought would poison them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The lobby is full of other old folks in wheelchairs, lined up in front of the bucket seats meant for visitors. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, sugar. I try to keep an open mind, but all these trials seem to end the same way. Doesn’t seem like Black folks can get any justice.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Can’t you see the wolves is laying in wait? Don’t you hear folk sharpening knives and waiting on you?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

For a lot of folks all over the country, those roads pass through places like this. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

That’s the first thing I liked about him, in fact that’s what I liked about black folks all my life: They never judged me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually folks would dash out of the way in moments, so familiar they were with the trolley and her signal. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Manny was in an old-fashioned barber’s chair, the one folks said he sat in to brainstorm the next issue of his paper. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Some folks wrote so funny and spelt things different from what she knew about. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“If you cook it just right, folks can’t shake the memory of it and long for another taste. That’s what brings them back.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“We’re not supposed to go there at all, yet. They’re still not letting us play outside because of the murder and everything. But my folks are weakening, I think.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still folks coming down, sounding like an elephant herd. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I guess there ain’t no accounting for what folks see in their own mirrors. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

They knew her, the graveyard folk, for each of us encounters the Lady on the Grey at the end of our days, and there is no forgetting her. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“They treat dogs better than that. They don’t punish criminals, but they beat up these poor folks. Why? Why?” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A draught of cooks, from every inn and eating-house for miles around, arrived to supplement the dwarves and other odd folk that were quartered at Bag End. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Downstairs at the reception following the ceremony, Mommy perked up even more as the klezmer musicians played traditional Jewish folk songs. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like most folks are still asleep,” she said. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

If their folks are such geniuses, how come they spend their days rooting around in the mud? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The terms "folk music" and "pop music" also have more than one meaning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She knew from sermons and editorials that it wasn’t real music—just colored folks’ stuff: harmful, certainly; embarrassing, of course; but not real, not serious. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If all us old folks stayed around, we’d soon fill the world up, like mice.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Here she comes, folks!” he shouted, excited despite himself, and the crowd cheered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“All right. They white folks. They done killed plenty of us.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grassel finally struck up a conversation with the folks behind him and left us alone. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When his eyes hit ’em, some folks screamed, some folks laughed, some folks cried, and some folks ’peared to be dumbstruck. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

At least none of the Black folks I knew. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Someone in Greenwich was bound to read the New York Times and tell her folks. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should have explained before. We’re headed up to what folks call the Tea Water Pump. Rich people get their water from there ’cause it tastes the best. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know he’s kicking around town, though, still looking for broken folks to save. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, folks,” said Grandpa, taking aholt of her elbow, “I reckon we best mosey on home now. Hit’s been a long fancy day.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Like Ms. Evans and Ms. D., and, well, even Mr. Hallis and the other foster folks got paid. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“That old bland thing again? Why them white folks like the lady-fingers so much? I can make a dozen cakes taste better ’n that.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He also gave us “fiancé” and “fiancée,” two fancy French words for the folks who are going to be married. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Half these folks didn’t know their mothers and fathers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“There, we’ve all made nice. Now come along, folks. I want to give you a tour of the ranch.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He asked all them good folk out there who’d been helped by this here channeling of the Lord’s spirit to send contributions. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But, honey, the truth of the matter is we don’t really do anything that folks can see. Our contributions are behind the scenes.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The footage showed sailors standing at attention on deck, or dropping artillery shells into guns, or horsing around on a beach, waving to the folks back home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"It's you young folks what's going to make the changes," she said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, she’s birthed lots of folks around here for years. My mama says my oldest brother wouldn’t be here at all if it wasn’t for Sister Redempta.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Libraries ain’t just for white folks. This library is for residents. That means any folks that live in Chicago.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

With him heading the charge, they now had the courage to say to those white folks who ran Odessa that they were no longer going to accept the crumbs of their paternalism. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a version of her mother that Ophie had seen only a few times, usually when white folks were around. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You got raggedy bottoms. I’d say you boys could learn a thing or two from the folks down in Arkansas. Wouldn’t you say, Brother Cletus?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My thing is, are we really supposed to believe you out here popping on folks like that? C’mon, now. Who wrote those lines for you?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He supposed folks were all in their houses eating, even the children. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked a little ways into the woods and sat on a couple of stumps whilst folks cleared out of the carnival. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Matter of fact, that’s how a lot of folks got their news back then, especially people that couldn’t read the newspapers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Suffolk, they had a white folks’ school and a black folks’ school and a Jewish school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make haste, folks!” he yelled, waving his hat and pushing me toward the caboose. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Sam, Ah say it’s caution, not nature dat keeps folks off uh red-hot stove.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

‘Tandy, tell me your movements of the last six hours. We have to do a complete report, you understand. It’s necessary for us to know where everyone was when your folks were killed.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

During those fifteen minutes before the next worship service, church folk would talk with one another, admire the babies, purposefully compliment and encourage the youth, and visit the restrooms. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been watching you, the way you latched on to folks around here.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I barely heard him say, “Get in. I’m going back to Grand Rapids tomorrow, I’ll send a telegram to your folks and then take you back.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Stay where crowds of our folks are, especially on Friday or Saturday evenings when the Klan searches for our folks.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, folks,” he said, full of cheer, which was weird because this was not a cheerful occasion. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The wildling stared at him through the eyeholes of his helm, and said, "The free folk have no need of cravens." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The only good thing about spending the afternoon and evening with Markie was that I wouldn’t have to think about what was going on with my folks. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Them’s the folks that waited. They waited until General George came back. Knew it would be safe then, the fever gone.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most white folks I knew seemed to have a great fear of blacks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that’s just some old folks’ lie they tell around here. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, as we sat around the bonfire singing folk songs and roasting marshmallows, I thought: This is what regular kids do. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There would be at least one of the fairy folk wandering around with empty pockets by the time he’d finished. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“We needs find out where this address is; I gots to stop in this store to ’range for meeting the boy who gonna let us know ’zactly where our folks is at.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Beneath their arms, I glimpse folks sitting to the right and left. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Where I come from, most folks jest tuck it up. Their land, I mean. Maybe thet’s what yore folks done.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

‘They bring fire,’ said Théoden, ‘and they are burning as they come, rick, cot, and tree. This was a rich vale and had many homesteads. Alas for my folk!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Tall found Blue. SueSue said some of the folks over in Kilgore still have the photos they sold down at Longhorn Drugs. Souvenirs.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it is clear that Hobbits had, in fact, lived quietly in Middle-earth for many long years before other folk became even aware of them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“How is de son gointuh be before his paw? Nature is de first of everything. Ever since self was self, nature been keepin’ folks off of red-hot stoves. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Same dimpled cheeks, same light complexions that make folks call us “red bones” and “light brights,” same dark, wide eyes. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And he suddenly remembered the many times his mother had told him not to look at the floor when talking with white folks or asking for a job. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘Let the heralds announce to the folk that the Lady Éowyn will lead them!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The time was past for asking the white folks what to look for through that door. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was probably just a folk tune being played, but after Ruthanne’s story, it sounded like a mournful wail. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He thought black folks were always trying to steal from him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t take you up with me, kid. With these new folks and their bags, bus is full. But this darn storm...” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But praying wasn't going to change the fact that I got to see whole new ways in which white folks were in charge. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Promise. You are one brave boy, Jaxon! But you’ve done enough for one day. Go home and give that big brain of yours a rest. Us old folks will take it from here.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

"He was King- * beyond-the-Wall a long time back. All the free folk know his songs, but might be you don't sing them in the south." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Time and again in the rich tradition of fusing musical genres we have seen composers draw on little-known folk styles - as Paul Simon did on Graceland - or trawl through music’s attic in search of inspiration. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was as if rainbows had come to earth, draped themselves on these folk, and paraded along the road. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t suppose this rain will keep folks away?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Older folks water their flowers or bring out their trash cans. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mind, godly folk had no business beyond their lawful homes at such a time. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

From some of the glares I got walking up the board sidewalk, I figured these folks would rather suffer through hard times on their own than have a stranger come in to witness their misery. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Black brothers, northmen, free folk, Thenns, queen’s men, all of them fell quiet, listening. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After we was through, the blacksmith hitched a wagon for Syl’s folks to ride in, and me and Spangler followed ’em down to the river. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Collect folks’ dead ones and get ’em buried.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time white folks had owned colored folks and forced them to work until their fingers bled. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“He laughed more in a morning with you than in two weeks with us. He should frolic with the young folks more, but they’re on their best behavior with a prince.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am. Plus we have my folks living with us, too.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The next thing she knew she was crawling, scrambling uphill on all fours like a dog as the good folks of King’s Landing made way for her, laughing and jeering and applauding her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, I noticed that while they were on TV singing or dancing or serving the white folks, none of them were in the family shows. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We have folks who keep a watch at the perimeter around the clock,” Max continues. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

White folks were funny; Mr. Bates might not wish to see a Negro the first thing in the morning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the small building, on rows of benches, sat the good folk of Wethersfield, men on one side and women on the other. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to barrel through folks who were standing in the doorway to the Serenity Suite—“Excuse me! Pardon me!”—but there were too many people trying to get into, or out of, the room. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and Aunt Maggie cooked in the kitchens of white folks and my brother and I were free to wander where we pleased during their working hours. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My name is Max Framer, and I’m your instructor for Insomnia Con. Please call me Max, not Mr. Framer. It helps us old folks feel young.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Others were folks from the Deep South with calcified attitudes about racial mixing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As much as I was ready to leave, and no matter what some folks thought of me, I knew my roots were in Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me handle this. On TV, detectives and spies are always looking for people, getting in where folks don’t want them to get in. I’ve been studying their moves.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

While it was wonderfully satisfying to see a sturdy structure arise from the ashes, literally, what had lifted my spirits most was seeing all the Vida folks come out. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Has four bedrooms upstairs: one for David, one for his folks, one just for company, and one for his father’s books, with a computer in it. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was one of the folk from Beyond the Wall, he could tell at once from her eyes, and her ears, which were visible beneath her curly black hair. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, dusty feet! Down here. Yeah, right here, big boy. You like stepping on folks? Step on this. Sap attack!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mind, for I like ‘to see folks eat with a relish’, as Hannah says, and the poor man must have needed a deal of food after teaching idiots all day. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lately, there be lots of folks coming to ask me questions. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ask him what they are doing about it, ladies and gentlemahn. Are they afraid—or are the white folks and their black stooges sticking together to betray us?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At long, wooden tables folks sit reading or with books spread out, some scribbling down words on pads of paper. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Grandpa told Granny one time that dead folks ought to be put right in the ground as the Lord intended. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I am certain that 1 can perhaps do something to aid these factory folk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Carolina said, “How many folks was that, Elijah? Nine? Ten?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Outside the building, a large number of black folks were angry. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Still it was nothing new, white folks seemed always to expect you to know those things which they'd done everything they could think of to prevent you from knowing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most folks in Key West were on relief. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you come with me? There are some folks who need to speak to you. They say it’s urgent.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A woman screamed as I brushed past her, and folks started fleeing from her as if she were infected with some fatal disease. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And just like you we have a function: providing comfort and meaning to the common folk. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rose’s house was in a nicer part of the city, the place where respectable colored folks lived, as the elderly woman liked to brag. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Actually, the folk with the Afros and dreads are the ones who haven’t “done” anything to their hair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid the boy will be having an appointment with my folk shortly after the whipping, Kilvin,” Arwyl said with a glimmer of amusement in his eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Mississippi is brown, filled with leaves, branches, and pieces of folks’ lives. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She said Grandpa was crazy to think town folks would accept a mill boy in the store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Not you. I’m fear’d you have some ill plans agate, that bring you about folk’s houses at this time o’ night. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Wine is our family trade. My father owns extensive vineyards back in Dome, and wishes me to find new markets. It is hoped that the good folk of Meereen will welcome what I sell.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I remembered what Grandma had said: “Church is the life’s blood of our folks’ community.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam found Frodo and his friends by the fire talking to old Tom Cotton, while an admiring crowd of Bywater folk stood round and stared. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“They said that a month ago when our folks got massacred at Port Hudson,” someone else pointed out. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You reckon colored folks turn white like that if they drown?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“That was the name of the old doctor that the folks set such store by,” Jenny explained. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me what I don’t know. I heard my foster folk talk about this five years ago.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There weren’t many cars in Key West; even the folks who owned them couldn’t afford gas. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these folks have come a long way, like Mr. Daryl, who’s been clean for six years and works in construction now. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“White folks just don’t think,” old man Edison would say. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe by the end of the day, we’d all be singing folk songs and playing Frisbee. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Then like country folk without any cares, we lay in the meadow, surrounded by tallgrass, and wove garlands of white daisies and purple columbines to crown each other. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Find them. I mean find out about them. We’re all split up, my family, and some folks in town thought you might know some of them.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blocks surrounding us were home to Jewish families, immigrant families, white and black families, folks who were thriving and some who were not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget to grab the ones you left in my folks’ house back up in the woods.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Poor folk don’t need you gawking at them.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were probably lots of folks who'd want to grow something, just like me. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

CPAs, those folks who can add columns of 9s in their heads, have been advising MDs since the 1980s to dot their i’s, cross their t’s, and never accept IOUs. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as he and his black folks did not go beyond certain limits, there was no need to fear that white force. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Coleridge-Taylor had previous experience of adapting African- American folk times. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He could kiss my wrist if he thought I was going to beg him and say things like “I’ll do anything you folks ask me if you don’t lock me up in here all alone.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I had heard white folks say that colored didn’t need school, that school would be a waste ’cause the colored couldn’t learn their reading anyhow. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If there’s a few decent respectable folk on the roads, that won’t do no harm,’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Plenty of folks share his attitude, but something fundamental has snapped in him. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Most black folks considered “finding myself’ a luxury. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined there must be places beyond Arkansas where my folks were treated better. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But then as the cities were cleared out and recaptured, folks got civilized once again. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

About midnight carriages came for the important folk. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mostly, I just liked seeing all the folks from the big ranches and the little farms like ours that was out on the boardwalk. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But others were just ordinary folk, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Among the marchers were students and older folks, parents and children, carrying backpacks, bedrolls and lunch bags. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By golly, I’m shore glad to see you folks!” he said, ushering Miss Love toward the parlor door and ignoring me on the davenport in the hall. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Some folks say funny stuff about their face. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And it won’t do me any good to tell folk, will it?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The old folks are not irritated by crying babies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it wouldn't come up, only a bitter spurt of gall filled my mouth and splattered the old folk's possessions. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, you know how it is, Brother; things are tight and lots of folks who got jobs through you people have lost them. You know how it goes." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a lighter gray than what King and his folks wear. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And it bred within each of them at least a basic level of resentment and mistrust: You never quite knew what other folks saw you to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Inside the building, folks must be coughing, choking from smoke. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He and his folks were up in the mountains at Tallulah Falls, visiting his grandmother. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“No. You will work for white folks. You will talk to them.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but I thought that was on account of you liking him, see? Some folks pretend not to like the person they most love.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"There's folks gathering in the square, Y'Grace, asking to take refuge in the castle. Not a mob, rich merchants and the like." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Try to get your folks to spring you by then. Okay?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Yes, ma’am, my legs are a lot stronger than they look, most folks are surprised by that.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“She was on a plantation down near Montgomery. She had two children and she had a man she loved, but they weren’t married because the slaves couldn’t get married like the white folks could.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Take Willie and me. Us aren’t all the way colored. Our Mama was real light and both of us haves a good deal of white folks’ blood in us. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Jewish school didn’t really count with the white folks, so I went to the white school, Thomas Jefferson Elementary. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around town, folks went about their business, unconcerned. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I’d had a telephone, like some of the folks closer to town did, I wouldn’t have needed to listen in on the party line. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At twelve, I was considered tall for my age; most folks thought I was fifteen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s got more money than all the folks in the Bronx? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

This was the thirties, the depression, and folks were poor and they used guns and fishing rods to survive. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turned out he’d been cheating folks for years, shorting their coffins and burial plots by six inches to a foot while charging full price. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, I live with my father and Arfy, my dog. My folks got divorced, and my mom doesn’t live with us anymore. It’s lonesome without her,” confessed Brad. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“White folks are fleeing by the droves,” I remarked. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

These included Chinese and Scottish, as well as some Eastern European ethnic folk music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I thought of the glee certain folks at home would feel if I were expelled. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when Stravinsky borrowed from Russian ethnic folk music, which he did in several of his Diaghilev ballet scores, he did so in order to distort it through some mischievous prism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Charmed folk,” I call, “citizens of the Spinney, I ask you to gather around me now in honor of this most solemn occasion!” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘Well, my merry folk,’ he said, ‘will you drink another draught with me before you go?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The night would pass with that cool, slow-stepping rhythm that allowed folks to believe for just a few hours that they were still back in the embrace of a warm Caribbean island. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were tall pale folk in linen and samite and tiger fur, every one a lord or lady to her eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’d love to, Mrs. Walton, but my folks don’t get paid until after the holiday.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even in church, folks kept to their own. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the castle yard, when King Pelles had gone dot-and- carry downstairs, there was quite a crowd of castle folk standing round the Wild Man in admiration. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was robbing these folks blind, charging them a hundred percent markup on his cheap goods, and he was worried about them stealing from him! The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray was definitely a friend of my folks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I warned them they had to check out those new-free folks better, and now somebody’s accidentally toted some of those horrible creatures up here.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They had all been enthralled by the folk dancers from Madrid at the Dominican World's Fair last year. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As Stephen Williams, a survivor of that system, told an interviewer: “Man, man, folks what didn’t go through slavery ain’t got no idea what it was.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Up to this point in musical history - the first few years of the twentieth century - ethnic folk elements had been co-opted into classical music as subsidiary exotic flavouring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The folks you hang out with can raise you up or bring you down low. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She said, “Ma’am? Mercy, Miss Thomas, your guest has some real fine manners. I can tell that he isn’t one of those rude, crude folks Mr. Calloway usually scours up.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

High towers that people built, and strong places, and havens of many ships; and the winged crown of the Kings of Men was held in awe by folk of many tongues. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A few passengers disembark as the Lansing folks line up. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a whole room of folks clapping at me for reading. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You people are easily confused by the look of things. I’ve had my eye on him for a while now. He’s cleverer than folk give him credit for. Always looking at things and asking questions.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It seems strange that in these very fraught times folks would be more concerned about hardworking people trying to find a better life than the monsters that actually want to eat them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Just the way Grandpa planned it, all the stores closed that day, and folks white and colored lined North Main and South Main, waving their Confederate flags. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Real is making enough money to help my folks pay off their house. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The Beatles borrowed sounds and techniques from both past musical traditions and cutting-edge advances - from ancient folk modes to electronic experiments - to become the most famous band in the world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My music teacher, Mrs. Hinton, told me that our folks had a lot more important things to worry about than a bomb shelter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had posted guards around Mole’s Town, both to keep his crows away from the wildling women and to keep the free folk from slipping off southward to raid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t think of nothing past how to get these folks freed, and it looked like there waren’t nothing I could do. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

After most folks had been served, Stella picked up a plate, relieved that the boys had left a few hush puppies—they were one of her favorites too. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was no choice but to hurry with the burying, despite folks were already bringing in food and sad faces. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And if folks could overlook the rumors of a white woman birthing a Negro, well, they could forgive just about anything, couldn't they? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Somehow I know without asking that Mr. Wallace isn’t going to go tellin’ folks about it, because people around here tend to keep quiet out of someone else’s business. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of them high and mighty folks in Montpelier offered to pay me a hundred dollars not to report a runaway, now have they?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

White folks, she felt, were implicitly evil toward blacks, yet she forced us to go to white schools to get the best education. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you ever choose the path of medicine folk, I will gladly reunite with you. Remember that in your adult years, Nathan.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When one set of folks got tired of me they sent me down the line. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I would just think that you would want to say a big thank-you to the folks who rescued you and be a credit to girls everywhere. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

What would the white folks think who'd sent me to college? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is an example of Aeolian mode in the American folk song “Aeolian Lullaby.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The boat captain has a big ice chest open and he’s letting folks admire his fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A long line of folks waited to sample the new invention. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

For one thing, as you approached, you’d find his prize pigs hobbled out on the prairie like most folks do horses or cows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bilbo never did a kinder deed than when he brought the lad back to live among decent folk. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The boy who was running away looked like Roy, but I can’t say for sure. I’m only checking with you folks because you’re his parents and, well, this is part of my job.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z