“I guess that’s that. Maybe you all can meet a few more folks?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Staying a child forever is not as cool as folks may think. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

For years Aunt Florentine and I had sat together at her window and watched folks arrive for viewings and visitations and funerals. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

It had a pitch, a note they heard only when they visited stubborn old folks who would not budge from their front yards and overworked fields to come to the City. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Father says the cops are out to get folks who act militant.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But if Mr. Douglass is near smart as folks say, seems to me he’d’ve had the sense to aim me out the window hisself. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then to the main crowd he said, “All right, folks, we’ll be opening the doors shortly,” and stepped back inside, closing the doors behind him. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But my folks were more alarmed over his last words than over his dying. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if folks find out Niceville is Jackson or figure out who who.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

“It’s getting ugly out there, folks,” the weatherman continued. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Some folks were betting it was her handsome stepfather. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“The mayor says folks ought to think about leaving New Orleans. People are packing up.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

"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

“Sometimes the rules are different for black folks, baby,” she says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“All right. They white folks. They done killed plenty of us.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks tagged along at a distance and followed the procession into the heart of town. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These folks are desperate. There’s no telling what they might do.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, I tell you this stuff Halley got out here is too strong for white folks to drink." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Scarlet fever was taking away a lot of folks at that time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Music blasts around us, folks show off their cars. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Just as they had with the buckets, folks took a sip of the soda and handed the bottle to the next person in line. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"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

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

I wonder how grown folks know so doggone much just by looking at you. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But Hype’s known to push the right buttons to make folks act a fool. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

“In the house of the Lord? Surely not. These white folks aren’t heathens. While you speak, they will come to understand you are all worshipping the same Lord.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never with both my folks away all night. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to our glorious treasure recovery, folks!” he said to the camera. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

If their folks are such geniuses, how come they spend their days rooting around in the mud? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

It’s completely dark out and cold enough that most folks are inside. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Miss Carolina said, “How many folks was that, Elijah? Nine? Ten?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m sure Mother will be home soon. But please, ask folks if they’ve seen her.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

We never did, but I can see how places get mobbed or looted if folks get mad enough. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

‘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

“We lost a lot of folks though. Seems they executed a number of prisoners and sold the rest into slavery.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

At one small town, a group of old folks and barefoot children rushed over to embrace Dr. King. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Folks can’t like folks just ’cause they has the same mama. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He knew that if he went in they would ask one another: Who’re them white folks Biker’s hanging around with? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Shucks, my ma use to work for rich white folks and you ought to hear the tales she used to tell. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cant you get done with that moaning and play in the branch like folks. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“Which one of your folks was mix-up?” she say, staring at me like I was whole tree full of owls. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t she care at all if folks talk? Hadn’t she done enough already, without acceptin’ an expensive gift like that from a man with a reputation so bad it rides ahead of him?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He said, “But nothing. Line’s closed. These here folks are the last ones.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

Daddy was on the other side, in the Serenity Suite, saying, “Give us room, folks! Please!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“That was bad enough, but now folks are saying that the Xi are taking our children,” said the man with the missing tooth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

No way colored folks would be allowed at a Survivalist shindig. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

"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

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

The only two folks around here old enough for you to be calling them sir are Mr. Jimmy and”—he winked—“your long-lost dear old daddy.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s always plenty of what you don’t need. That’s why folks call this next-year country. ’Cause next year, things will be better.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

It would be awful not to have folks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“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

We weave between people, dodging bicycles, babies in strollers, and old folks taking their sweet time. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

But I expect a lot of folks noticed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

They are good, simple folks who will provide Vincent with a safe place to live, food to eat, and company. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Look after your folks," said Mr. Georgiou, and then he headed back across the street to his pizzeria. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

Other folks were also moving into abandoned buildings, she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It made Ophie think of the angry white men who hunted down colored folks just because they could. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The more Ophie thought about it, the harder it seemed to be colored, to have to think before doing anything, to wonder if the white folks looking at her meant her harm. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The white folks would have killed him and my father would have killed him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Then I waded into the stream that comes from the spring and began to stack logs, stones, and mud where I had planned the dam the day our folks left. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but you can go introduce yourself to those nice folks across the street.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

But regular folks burnt out of their homes and penniless Loyalist refugees on the run from the rebels, they were forced to shelter in Canvastown, the new name for the burned-over district. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little girl said, “That’s a strange name, Bud-not- Buddy,” and even though she was kind of young and scrawny to be teasing folks I could tell that that was exactly what she was doing. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen pictures of folks from other storms, standing on roofs. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Every time they built a road they built a old folks’ home. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“Looks like most folks are still asleep,” she said. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

And we were, for it was clear to tell that those folks had to work so hard just to hold on. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Listen, there are worse things than the wrath of the Martin brothers. And the worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

You prob’ly think I'm off in the head, Love, like them folks that has visions.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“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

I dash across the street, dodging the folks gathering in the road. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

Some of the folks in our neighborhood, the ones from Ireland, would nod knowingly and smile. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

He owned property all over the Black Belt, and he owned property where white folks lived, too. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, the Preacher let me and other folks know it had been showed to him that my rock chunking was gave to me as a gift from Jesus! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

“Get ready, folks!” a voice said on the loudspeaker, startling me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

“Older folks have their ways,” Wash said, but his mind was already on something else. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rest I gave to my family and other Lake folks. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

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

Filling one of Miss Love’s boxes, I remembered one time Smiley said his folks were gone off and he’d get his little sister to go down to the barn with us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

They knew firsthand how white people acted when colored folks broke the unspoken rules, forgot their place. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

“Mr. Stevenson, all I wanted to do is tell the truth. I can't go to jail, and I'll be honest—these folks have scared me.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

“Look, you can’t be worried about what folks think, baby,”Jay says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At midnight, the sandwiches and coffee were passed around again and folks danced some more. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

Granny kept nodding and smiling, like greeting folks at church, and reached up like to touch somebody. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“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

Similar to how I’d initially felt about Barack's candidacy, plenty of black folks couldn't bring themselves to believe that my husband had a real chance of winning. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Who said it was okay for the white folks to have permission to touch everything whenever and wherever they wanted? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

“Here she comes, folks!” he shouted, excited despite himself, and the crowd cheered. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

When the sun started peeking over the trees on Belle Isle I knowed I had to welcome Hope to Canada the right way, the same way growned folks do. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“No one knows, baby. But I know folks are starting to worry. And that makes them scared...and angry.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

She don’t flash it ’round or nothing, but folks say anyone that can buy fifty acres without no loan must be rich as a slave owner! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

He couldn’t control his feelings, so he went back to the bedroom to don his overalls and go face the whims of white folks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not guaranteed to get you a thirty-six, but Jay said I better get close since she “paid these folks a light bill” for this class. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Helps that most folks are unable to see the little critters,” Maddox said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

All the Remember When stories in the paper had folks talking about the way Manifest used to be. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

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 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

The church was more than half-empty compared to the first Sunday Madam brought us, what with so many folks melting into the countryside, like Master Lockton. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

People talk about “good folks,” that was the Littles, all right. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"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

“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

It’s at six that grown folks don’t think you’re a cute little kid anymore, they talk to you and expect that you understand everything they mean. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Black folks, our customers, they’d come into the store and buy BC powder, fill up on that, that was their doctor. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like in Alabama, folks here are in all shades of brown, so many they call this part of Chicago the Black Ghetto, or the Black Belt. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

“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

I guess they could sell flour to folks that didn’t have a good crop. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She wrote him a short memo, Gone—then added—to my folks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The hours passed, and I knew that I had probably exhausted whatever helpful information could be obtained from Walter's family, but folks still wanted to talk. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

"No. I tried to call him a few times but his folks don't know where he's at," said Alfred. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“Momma said folks brought food all day yesterday. They were still bringing it when I got here last night. Seems like the whole neighborhood has stopped by.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

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

Inside are three shamblers: two men and one woman, all white folks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Trees do talk to some folks, the ones we know we can trust. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

How many folks you see living like us, Negro or white? Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“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

She knew that the big house, the house of pride where the white folks lived, would come down: it was written in the Word of God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

She’d be a statue till she had to scratch or something, then come outside for a few minutes and talk to folks about the latest in motorcar fashions. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Miss Scout, different folks get married for different kinds of reasons. Miss Alexandra, I think she got married to keep house.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I had a whole room of folks clapping at me for reading. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

"I don't care who they are, they got no business putting these old folks out on the sidewalk." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks can look at you and tell if you’re even thinking about slacking off, they’ll add some work to you faster than you can say Jack Robinson. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

And to be out to lunch, to not return messages, and to keep folks on hold till they get gray and die. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Milez lost last night, yet that song so catchy, he got even more folks talking ’bout it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“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

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

I imagined there must be places beyond Arkansas where my folks were treated better. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

The trick with addled old folks was to be agreeable. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to see the white folks then and they gave me help. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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 don’t mean to imply I merely treasure the folks around me for the way they help. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Sure, I guess everybody has 'em, but I never heard of anybody here in the Brotherhood not liking you. As far as folks up here is concerned they think you're it. You heard any different?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

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

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 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

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

“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

The problem was, Dad was always talking about us being ordinary folks—about how ordinary folks like this and ordinary folks need that. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

After Sunday school, folks naturally asked where was Mr. Tweedy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

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 rattle easy, poor creatures. And folks is always bothering them.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

“Can I go and peep at the white folks?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

As for “old folks”—well, he didn’t have any. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The folks at the boathouse threatened to call a policeman, but he went anyway. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. One of them. They never was too crazy ’bout colored folks. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I don’t trust them folks at the DA office.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“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

Gramps had helped his daddy build this house back when folks kept hogs in their backyards. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

"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

“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

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

“We got ourselves a farm girl, folks. Make no mistake.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Stella remembered how proud folks had been last year when Liza Twitty had left for college in Atlanta. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I walked across the hall to Great-great-aunt Florentine’s bedroom and peeked through her curtains to see how many folks were downstairs. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I wouldn’t, for the smart caps won’t match the plain gowns without any trimming on them. Poor folks shouldn’t rig,” said Jo decidedly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

About folks who called sauerkraut “liberty cabbage” in order to swallow it down with their supper. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“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

He supposed folks were all in their houses eating, even the children. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The covers have all these folks in bright-colored Spandex fighting one another. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Stay away from them folks, son. They all sorry and no-count and good for nothin’. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

“Black folks died at Pearl Harbor,” he goes on. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had what black folks called “good” hair, because it was curly as opposed to nappy. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“War’s an expensive proposition. Don’t think the Huns much care about the finances of us folks here on the prairie.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"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

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

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

“Whenever I ask my folks, my father turns me off by saying I’m weak—that I’m a you-know-what lover. He says colored folks are used to doing without, and I ought not spoil them.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat there in front of me and she didn’t see me, she saw white folks. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Pa said, “I know some folks in Chatham what can handle this.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

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

“All I care about is what the folks in Jackson, Mississippi, got to say about it.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"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

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

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

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

“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

“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

There were probably lots of folks who'd want to grow something, just like me. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s folks that call me Pastor Howard. But you can call me Shady.” 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

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

She tall for her age—most folks think she five or six. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

Others were folks from the Deep South with calcified attitudes about racial mixing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“You done helped me to steal enough from the folks you worked for to put you in jail already.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I recognize a couple of the folks from Mayor Carr’s dinner party. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

Albert’s will said nothing of his relation to his heirs, but folks in Lacks Town knew they were children he’d had with a former slave named Maria. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He said that in California white folks were not in charge of our people as they were here in Arkansas. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

Finally Papa dared to say “Mr. Blakeslee, folks are mad about you makin’ fun of the Lord’s Day. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If only I could turn around and drop my arms and say, "Look, men, give me a break, we're all black folks together . . . Nobody cares." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It’s true—black folks do dream in color. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Same to you. And your folks. Tell Mr. Dead and your mother I said Merry Christmas.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

It must be record heat, cause I been tending to white folks for forty-one years and this the first time in history I ever went to work without no stockings on. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

The Great Migration, in which Black folks took any opportunity to flee old Jim Crow and the terror of the Klan, meant that more colored folks were pouring in to the city every day. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It’s a lighter gray than what King and his folks wear. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

There were some folks that didn’t like to see the colored traveling about. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

If I wanted to give them away, I could find plenty of hungry black folks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Well, I do. I’m tired. School just started and I could use a rest. I’m going to visit my folks in Baton Rouge.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m not terribly surprised. Most folks are nothing but dead weight.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

"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

They crossed the street and wandered in the meadow that folks called “lots.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t just folks back home who stood up and paid attention to what had just happened. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Come on in, folks,” he said, moving out of our way and motioning us inside. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

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

Some folks move aside; others, some drunk, some space cadets, I’ve got to push. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You can’t be picky when folks are rescuing your kids, now.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

You might be more com-fitted if they wasn’t so stiff and would bend easy in the places where most folks’ clothes bend.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

A rattlesnake often warned a body before it struck, but a cottonmouth might attack before folks even knew it was there. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Cora shuddered and he whispered, “I know you were worried. I didn’t feel like mixing with folks tonight, reckoned I’d wait here.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

“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

Another hundred years were ground up and churned, and what had happened was all muddied by the way folks wanted it to be—more rich and meaningful the farther back it was. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Mr. Max. We all black and the white folks treat us the same.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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 refuse to let those folks in that office demean me because I have the audacity to ask for help.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“My dude, how many folks from the Garden you know are getting attention like this? This is major, Princess. Props.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

Because I didn’t want to run the risk of seeing my folks. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, black folks can get creative with names, but Love? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Had he heard anything the night “my folks”—as Detective Hayes called them—were killed? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

If Miss Anderson is involved, then I know those folks above can’t be up to any good. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

Colored folks who’d broken some unspoken rule, gotten uppity and acted above their station, and paid the price for such an error with their lives. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“I mean originally. Where are your folks from?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

Mr. Ray was definitely a friend of my folks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

“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

"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

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

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

One Sunday at a camp-meeting, when Gabriel was twelve years old and was to be baptized, Deborah and Florence stood on the banks of a river along with all the other folks and watched him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

Most folks in Key West were on relief. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two folks with the same blood would think them just alike! Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

Old folks wouldn’t sit on stoops and park benches. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Voting, as some blacks liked to say, was strictly “white folks’ business.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“But mostly they gets brought back. They got dogs that can smell a person in the woods and folks whose job it is just to catch runaways and bring ’em back.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

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

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

All around town, folks went about their business, unconcerned. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some folks just found it difficult to compare an Indian to a white guy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You can learn a lot from older folks.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

These folks are the Kings of the Earth! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pretended I knew what she was talking about, most times if you listen to how grown folks ask a question they let you know what it is they want to hear. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

“I just know the common ordinary everyday names that folks call things around here.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

But she also understood that sometimes the world was just a little bit more complicated and grown folks liked to operate in absolutes. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“Why don’t you ask the white folks that?” she countered. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Ralph didn’t have any real baby carriage like most folks’ babies did, or any summer bootees. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

“It’s a mantle radio, see,” Henry said, “but we’ll just put it on the little table by the window. There’s still an antenna outside from the folks before us.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

But mostly folks are so busy, streets so loud, people miss seeing them. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

He always ’peared to be gigantic when he was tearing strips offen someone’s back or barking orders from atop his horse or when he was getting whispered ’bout in folks’ gossip. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

But most folks are ignorant on purpose or else too busy, too scared. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Will the Whiz Kids folks be cool with Melody?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

"Your folks know you got kicked out yet?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t try to help me too much like most folks do when they find that I am over a hundred years. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve only seen a handful of folks walking around the town, but the church is easily the size of the First Baptist, the second largest church in Baltimore. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“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

“I don’t want to hear what ‘some folks’ say. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Sidetrack. How are you folks doing this evening?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

‘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

Mary Willis, you ought to see what them folks in New York call fried chicken.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Retired folks walk through the neighborhood trying to be helpful. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Herman E. Calloway said, “What in Sam Hill is going on here? First off, don’t you be coming in here accusing folks of being your father, and second off, where is your mother?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The sooner you learn that nice white folks are few and far between, the easier your life will be, kiddo. At least, they’re not nice to girls like you and me.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“White folks just don’t think,” old man Edison would say. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We just watch Boston folks that come out and try.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Lately, there be lots of folks coming to ask me questions. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Sarah and Daniel and I run through our allowances and ask to borrow money from our folks, we get a huge lecture, and then they make it a teachable moment. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

“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

“Lots of old folks is conjured or addled.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

And I knew some folks that shined shoes at the barbershop. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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 were probably going to be a lot of folks trying out for Olivia. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

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

The old folks are not irritated by crying babies. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m keeping the club open so folks have a place to go.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I don't need some doctor's permission to see my folks. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s play ‘white,’ ” Bigger said, referring to a game of playacting in which he and his friends imitated the ways and manners of white folks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

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

I like to see that in old folks. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I’m with an old family” was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks’ cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury that you couldn’t even understand them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You don’t suppose this rain will keep folks away?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Figgered the church folks would put a preacher up and feed him, too. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

But when we got outside, the three of us huddled as though we belonged together in order to keep folks who might be watching from telling on us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I can tell by the way they talk to her, kind of loud—like folks do with crazy people—with a smirk on their face, like they know a secret she don’t. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

And as the singing ended and folks sat down, I stood up. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“Make haste, folks!” he yelled, waving his hat and pushing me toward the caboose. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But this time, my folks were knocked out. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

“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

Mind you, I don’t really say y’all, but it’s usually best to try to sound a bit like the folks whose town you’re moving into. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But black folks put a twist on it, switched it around—or as my mother said, put some funk on it—and made it butterfly. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

“This is a big tree, folks,” he said. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

I refused to talk to anyone about my affairs, because I knew that I would only hear a justification of the ways of the white folks and I did not want to hear it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But now, Sam, you know dat all he do is big-belly round and tell other folks what tuh do. He loves obedience out of everybody under de sound of his voice.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

He and his folks were up in the mountains at Tallulah Falls, visiting his grandmother. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

Sure, no one is going to miss the Negroes from the fence team, but Mr. Spencer and these other white folks? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Most folks come to the house, not the barn.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ain’t no black folks in the part of Heaven that I been assigned to and I’m bored. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

"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

“But why you folks shouldn’t enjoy a bit of butter in your golden years, I don’t know.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“Look here, I’m keeping you folks up too late.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hardest people to reach, he told me, were the younger folks, the eighteen- to thirty-year-olds who seemed to have no faith in government at all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This was one of her late nights taking class over at the white folks' university. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But Ma’s always telling me not to do that, ’specially ’round respectable folks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Colored folks used to stay where they were told that they belonged. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“Lord, Sister McCandless,” said Elisha, “look like it ain’t never but us two. I don’t know what the other young folks does on Saturday nights, but they don’t come nowhere near here.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

Where the folks have a real cute jail. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“We need to bag up some cookies,” she said, “and you can take them over to the Community Center and then add them to your mother’s casseroles for the old folks.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

First I had to go ask Mama to clear folks out of the parlor where Granny was. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

They were like a lot of white folks back then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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 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

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

That's the first time I understood why folks call them that! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

“You just used me and waited for her to die. I’m not going with you, Finn. These folks are my family now.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

Pearl lived in Wilmington like I did, and one day I pulled her aside and asked her, “Why do you work for these white folks?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“They don’t treat union folks like they do me.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ever since Miss Love started playing for preachin’, folks had sung out good, patting their feet and generally getting in shape to shout and amen during the sermon. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“We have folks who keep a watch at the perimeter around the clock,” Max continues. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

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’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

He had a fancy old hat on his head and was carrying the kind of spear they use to chuck at folks in the Bible. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Daddy says folks in the North like to keep to themselves, so I guess that’s why they never speak. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

"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

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

Back then, a lot of folks couldn’t or wouldn’t pay and just never had a license. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“No, Isabella. Like us, like people of color, like Black folks. That we.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Those were interesting things to hear but what was more important was hearing what had made folks call out so. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know,” he persisted, still smiling, and still looking at Elizabeth, “tell me folks do things up North they wouldn’t think about doing down home.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

“A man in the cell across from me. Said, ‘Black folks, every day above ground is a good day.’ Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

I sure don’t want Cold Sassy folks to sound like a bunch of Yankees. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My folks is from the hills, not the mountains.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

There were only a few folks there already. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Why, I guess there ain't a colored man in the county who ever got to take so much of the white folkses' time as I did. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

A long line of folks waited to sample the new invention. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Nothing but black folks in black clothes rapping revoludon and a line of hungry black kids.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

On either side of me, folks are packing cars to leave, hammering wood over windows, or else standing, sitting on the porch, playing music, drinking liquor like it’s Mardi Gras. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Lots. All sorts of families brought their old folks.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Some folks call oil country ugly, but I say it’s got its own kind of pretty,” she’d said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

"My folks need me at the deli right now. You know how it is." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Unlike Mama, he didn’t worry about folks thinking bad of him, but he always made sure they thought well of him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

We didn’t jump the broom like the old folks used to do. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when folks tried, they ended up damaging the tree roots. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

Look, I think it's a good time for a break, folks. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could judge most folks by the company they kept, after all. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Real is making enough money to help my folks pay off their house. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

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

“Uppity” is what folks back home would call her. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I can drive you. I’m not afraid of them folks.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

By spring, she traded for shares of folks’ seed. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

It didn’t take long for folks to learn about the ugly word carved into my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

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

She knew, like all of us, that the woods were where you went to do things you didn’t want other folks to know about. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

I heard folks is heading to Louvenia Brown’s tonight at five thirty to pray for Robert, but by the time I lift that twenty-pound turkey in the brine, I can’t barely raise my arms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

“Try to get your folks to spring you by then. Okay?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d stay to help out with this sick person or that until I’d run out of folks who needed help and didn’t mind an extra mouth to feed to get it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And some folks were never going to change. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how many rich white folks come to the courthouse on drug possession?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

"Someone's got to look after our folks," I replied. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“I know whose bullet that was, Judd, and I told Dad, and if folks find me up here with a bullet in me, Dad’ll know whose bullet that is, too.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“To the young folks we got here who knew him, I’m so sorry. We’re doing what we can to make sure he receives a proper burial.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

He was lookin’ real happy like young folks do as have been allowed to attend a party.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

These folks were more than happy to send us out there, day after day, but when it’s their turn to fight they ain’t got the stomach for it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

“Well,” she went on, “don’t let it. There’s more good folks than bad in the world, believe it or not. I bet they find him.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The tables full of colored folks are farthest away from the podium, and it feels intentional. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

Sometimes religious folks draw pretty deep lines in the sand. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Then after folks talked about Miss Love cleavin’ to somebody besides Grandpa, they had to speculate about her church affiliation. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

Nowadays eight children sounds like a lot to most folks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

“Shamika said that this isn’t the first time our folks have gone up against the cops. Was she referring to us and Papa?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

The folks around the table are glaring at me. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I don’t know why grown folks can’t say someone is dead, they think it’s a lot easier to say “gone.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

I remember one time the evening ended with Loomis saying, “You know, white folks, when a man cast his bread pon de waters, it gwine come back buttered toast, praise Jesus.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Liz was like some of the other kids at school, calling colored folks names I wasn’t allowed to say. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

‘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

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 good folks at The Corporation there are gonna give y’all a little tour and let you test our new beauty products, and then I have a super surprise for all my Teen Dreamers.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“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

Now I don’t even know half the folks on my floor. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

His prosperous-looking belly that used to thrust out so pugnaciously and intimidate folks, sagged like a load suspended from his loins. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been watching you, the way you latched on to folks around here.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In Snapfinger this can be most of the folks in town. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

If it wasn’t for the river and the shrimp and fishes we could catch, Arrabelle wouldn’t be talkin’ this trash to you folks right now.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

There’s yelling out in the street as the sheriff continues to round up folks, and I turn toward the door. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

Aw, them folks go to church every day in the week, he thought. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

Inside the building, folks must be coughing, choking from smoke. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The conductor was screaming for folks to run on up to the other passenger cars. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

Some of the older folks resisted leaving right up to the end and had to have their bags packed for them and be physically lifted and shoved onto the buses. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Some folks have watch dogs, I got a watch mule. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Well, that upset some of the synagogue folks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

Clean hooked up with some folks who told him about the Tigros posse. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But folks have been sowing seeds for centuries—surely even one such as I can manage. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They call the careless folks who drop things by a cute name: litterbug. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So do we win an extra prize if we help you folks figure this thing out?” asked Angus Harper from Texas. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Cousin Turk. He delivers fertilizer to folks all over the county.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

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

“That’s right. You know, the children was reading me something th’other day. Say folks dream about whatever was on their mind when they went to sleep.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colored folks couldn’t live just anywhere, but the Hill had always welcomed Pittsburgh’s darker-skinned residents. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

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 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

“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

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

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

Eva out at the old folks’ home, the deweys living anywhere, Tar Baby steeped in wine, and Sula upstairs in Eva’s bed with a boarded-up window and an empty pocketbook on the dresser. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

Everyone was nudging each other and I could tell that some of the other folks in the room had heard that story before. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I know what things were like before the War between the States, and even though the years after were chaotic, at least colored folks like me were free. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The folks in the quarters and the people in the big houses further around the shore heard the big lake and wondered. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

I don’t think church folks know how to just “snack.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

That’s how it would be at night on Parker Head, where folks knew that, come winter, their houses would still be on Parker Head, not floating down the New Meadows. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Ooh, big stuff. I sure hope you picked the right outfit. You can’t be looking crazy around them white folks!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

She learned it from her pa, but folks didn’t take to women doing a man’s work. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Frank whispers, “How you liking it out there with all them white folks?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

We had the Clemson cattle to contend with, but Pa never thought of suing for damages like most folks. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“I’d love to, Mrs. Walton, but my folks don’t get paid until after the holiday.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“No one, sir. I mean, different folks took me in, but I didn’t have anyone official like that.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes folks who have things to say don’t say them.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When she finished unpacking their clothes, Ma told the boys to put the suitcase back in the car, which really meant leave grown folks to grown folks’ business. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

“Then do your work and stop minding grown folks’ business.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Other folks ran down the street, too, calling out one suggestion after another. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I did see her once downtown, when my folks were taking me to visit our lawyer. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Some old folks, some young folks, some middle folks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Now I’ve noticed that most folks don't like waiting at the station. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Learn to listen, keep your mouth shut, let the grown folks do the talking. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks say funny stuff about their face. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

"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

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

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

“Naw. I didn’t want to. Nobody but poor folks get happy in church.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No. You will work for white folks. You will talk to them.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

Most folks who take a trip send postcards. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

Everything I ever ’membered ’bout folks hanging someone was running through my head o’er and o’er. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Had to walk down the road a ways to get to our nearest neighbor, but if somebody got sick, or was in need of a hand, folks were there to help ’fore you knew it. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

“Don’t you leave me like this, boy! I helped you! None of them folks out there lifted a finger for you before I did! I made you what you are, boy—don’t you leave me!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Only thing them Chinese folks in that movie et was whales and seals. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d have to explain all that to her folks because they might be prejudiced. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

People are allowed to bicycle at night in New York City, folks. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

I’m just saying your folks make way more money than mine. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She said to me and him both, “But, Elijah, you’s a whole lot more growned than some other folks your age.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“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

Some folks may not like the idea of working on a weekend, but it never felt like work to Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

All that coming and going of them folks didn’t have much to do with us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

Work needn’t be suffering, it could unite folks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

I don’t know too many Ninth Ward folks that can swim. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Mississippi is brown, filled with leaves, branches, and pieces of folks’ lives. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I thought of the glee certain folks at home would feel if I were expelled. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“I called Pastor Johnson, and he said he’d round up some folks too,” Ma added. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t hear? We signed up to do our bit. After all, somebody’s got to go over and fix the mess your folks got themselves into over there.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sold something folks needed, and he went right to the customer. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In these parts, folks are as likely to kill you as trade with you,” Meeks whispered. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It just goes to show you how white folks can be deceived by their own deception. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“This is what you want folks to think of you? That you pull triggers and stay strapped? That’s the kinda reputation you want?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

You just can’t explain a thing like that to your folks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

‘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

“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

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

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

Sometimes I think us folks in the South are jest like pore Essie. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“This Starr’s first party. Her folks don’t let her go nowhere.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“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

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

I still remember, as it was uncommon for white folks to ride out to the colored farms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Welch told the folks gathered at the house that his niece had been murdered at Jackson Cleaners that morning. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

More like a store, but the folks inside are dressed like church folks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

Most folks don’t have sense enough to carry a blanket around with them, but you never know when you might be sleeping under a Christmas tree at the library so I always keep mine handy. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

The kind white folks tell when the mill closes down and they’re looking for a little comfort somewhere. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Bernabe saw no leaders; he had no idea how folks might get themselves together and forge viable new lives. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put all my Life Notices into Short, and also my “funeral geography,” as Aunt Florentine called it—notes about who came to each funeral and what folks said and whose food they didn’t eat. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those congressmen probably ain't seen the dead shambling through the fields for years, going after folks, trying to eat them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

It’s a pretty new stadium and folks around here are proud of it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you ever read about some folks trying to start a black colony in Mexico? In a place called Baja California?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

All our folks were hardworking people who had struggled to own their homes, to provide a stable life for their families. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hate being talked about. I hate feeling disliked. I hate it that your folks are embarrassed.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

“But I love you more. You’re one reason I even became a cop, baby girl. Because I love you and all those folks in the neighborhood.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

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

“First time always the hardest. Especially with them sympathetic looks folks give you. You learn to ignore them eventually.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

Some of 'em was big white folks, too, from the big school way cross the State. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

Back when things were still civilized, the rich folks from town used to come up and stay their weekends in grand hotels, and ride on the gravity railroad. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

It’s a little mind-boggling how nice people are, folks I don’t even know. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

"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

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

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

“After my folks split, I stole my old man’s car. Red-hot Camaro. I was drinking whiskey and beer and crashed the vintage piece into a bank.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“See that, you stop saying what folks will do and what they won’t.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

“A library for colored folks? It’s a library for Chicago residents,” she says, serious. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am. Plus we have my folks living with us, too.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No one said anything, but when Mr. Little kind of nodded, folks pushed their plates aside and started getting up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even more good—I don’t got to go in the world, see other folks. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“Yes, sir, folks say I’m the spitting image of my old man.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“What you mean? You don’t think folks from around here can be business people?” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that something? Guess your folks are doing well and your daddy’s happy.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

There were at least eight, ten white folks here! Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

“You think ’cause you skinny, folks think you young? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

He would rather pay for us to study privately than to go to school with gentiles, but the law was the law, so I had to go to school with the white folks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It so hot 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

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

A lot of folks around Marshall will tell you that usually I can tell a good story along with the best of them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“Then why is she living with us colored folks?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"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

“By the way,” Ben added, “nice call saying that Radar’s folks are overprotective.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The fire escape fell apart. All those people running down the rusty old steps pulled it right off the building, trapping the other folks inside.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“Usually at rallies or protests cuz a lot of folks attended rallies for my dad years ago.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He said, “Line’s closed. These here folks are the last ones.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

"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

“Before you see your father, come meet some folks,” my father’s wife then said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

Felicia says to Benny, not quiet enough, “Good thing Mama wasn’t up on one a them stools. Else none a them white folks had any teeth left.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A different track came on and folks started heading toward the tables. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“She was here this past weekend since her folks was out of town.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They sat there, Rob’s mom holdin’ back tears, and my folks didn’t even bother to show up. / should be the one dead, not Rob. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Miss Sadie’s stories floating around in my head, I came up with any number of folks who might be buried there. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise was not to occupy her head thinking about those folks. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“Check back with us about the theft. Meantime, hang in there, folks.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if it was proper to listen to white folks, but I couldn’t help that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“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

I mean, what I did was way, way out as far as white folks were concerned. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few passengers disembark as the Lansing folks line up. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“May have at one time. But not no more. I hear the insurance folks been down talking to her brother.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it wuzn’t for so many black folks it wouldn’t be no race problem. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

When folks are telling stories, the neighborhood is warm. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

I think folks in the county jail have to stay for a long time. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

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

It waren’t till you went into the houses that you saw the different ways that folks set ’em up. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Now that Hazel was found, the fire was contained, and the house was clearly a loss, a number of folks wearily started making their way home. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

I kept my eyes open for anyone who might help, but the only folks in the street were sailors, and most of them were drunk. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His folks have just gone on holiday Prior to going to Ritchie’s, I head over to Henry Street and have a look for Thomas O’Reilly. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He went back to work the day after the funeral, which most folks thought not fitting. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t you be mindin’ white folks’ business, you hear me, gal? Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her motel catered to a patchwork of local folks who were down on their luck. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

“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

It was better down in the valley, since, as always, the hills protected it, but up in the Bottom black folks suffered heavily in their thin houses and thinner clothes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

So repeatedly, the white folks asked him to get up, but he refused to leave. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Over thirty folks gutted like pigs and the place burned down in a blue flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And the white folks took to coming out here to see us and talk with us. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

All in all, Wallace made twelve trips down the Eternal Creek before some folks from Fry fished him out. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was too much of a hardship on Circe anyway for them to stay there, and if her white folks found out about them, they might let her go. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I headed upstairs, I was confused to see a throng of black folks sitting outside the courtroom in the courthouse lobby. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All these folks I’ve never met became gods over my life. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Part of me says, "Go back down there and talk to the folks, tell them what you're thinking here, ask for some advice." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to embarrass anyone by saying that all the grown folks were sitting all over the house sobbing their eyes out, so I said, “They’re around.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“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

There was lots of folks like that and I wasn’t saying they were poor. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Mom, noon, and night they came, old folks and little children, big men and small ones, barefoot girls and women with babes at their breasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Some rich folks lived here once, he thought. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

The police officer explained to my folks that I had been caught stealing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

I looked over at Emma and, doggone-it-all, she was squeezing that awful doll and starting to pull her lip down and cloud her eyes up, getting ready to bawl right along with the new-free folks. 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

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

I had to find a subtler place where my folks might be. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

In class, folks don’t like to sit near me, either. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Besides, Negroes made it difficult for regular folks like herself to get work. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stacked on top are magazines she sets on the floor, some with pictures of black folks on the cover. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

We been knowing these folks our whole lives, man, so we grieve when they grieve. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“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

“Welcome to the Crossbars, folks. Who do we have the pleasure of entertaining tonight?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Oh, that’s just some old folks’ lie they tell around here. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I watch TV over my dinner at night, I see a world in which almost everyone makes $15 an hour or more, and I’m not just thinking of the anchor folks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half these folks didn’t know their mothers and fathers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The shopkeepers and other folks looked at my face and saw only the angry red scar, just starting to fade at the edges. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

“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

After a moment she said, “I’m gonna take you to my house. It’s freezing out here. We gotta get out of these wet clothes and talk to my folks. They’ll know what to do.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We crept like an atom cloud shot by lasers—or barely at a snail’s pace—as several folks slowed us down to say their hellos. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

But I had a lot of toys when I was little, a lot for the financial condition that my folks were in. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Maybe he’s got more money than all the folks in the Bronx? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As they made their way down Glisan Street, Percy looked longingly at the folks in the cafes enjoying coffee and pastries. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

The folks were in Paris—yeah, Paris, France—celebrating my mom’s birthday. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“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

“They certainly haven’t needed any proof to send our folks down south in chains over and over,” David said. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I knew those rich folks were gonna come here and bring some good luck with them!” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

The folks who had been milling about in confusion now sprinted toward the entryway. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“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

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

"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

Beneath their arms, I glimpse folks sitting to the right and left. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It sure is time we had a revival among our young folks,” said Sister McCandless. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Like Mama always said, I guess some folks just can’t be satisfied. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

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

Most folks were nicer than that, but the thing was, we never knew. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I gotta try to get as many of these done as I can before the news folks get here,” she said, still talking to me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

First time in my life I saw the white folks and the colored folks together in a crowd. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seemed as if folks were seeing German spies and seditionists under every patch of buffalo grass. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Forget who white folks think you are, ’cause they ain’t got a clue. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The local folks made a big deal about wanting boys from around here to sign up. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Horses in a house of the Lord made some folks grumble, including Lady Seymour. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hispanic means the paler folks from Puerto Rico. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“Soon as I’m packed up here, I’m getting on the road. My folks were in Betsy. I don’t mess with hurricanes.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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 worse things are for me, the better some folks like it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“And I am sure it would cheer the old folks if you told them.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Just a few hours in that soddie made me see how folks could go crazed and run out into the freezing cold of the Nebraska prairie. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

I texted all’s well to my folks and downloaded a library book. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something ’bout being in the back of the buckboard makes children forget the growned folks are a couple feet away from ’em and lots of things that shouldn’t be told get said. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Something about a baby always brings old folks back to life. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plenty of folks share his attitude, but something fundamental has snapped in him. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

Loomis pushed me through the crowd, bowing and scraping to the white folks, but pushing all the same. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

Even in church, folks kept to their own. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Preacher waren’t seen for the next couple of days and that did cause some folks to worry, but everybody knowed he disappeared all the time so didn’t no one pay it too much mind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I watch the line, noting a few unfamiliar faces, older folks I don’t recognize. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Some folks wrote so funny and spelt things different from what she knew about. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

“But nothing of the killing sort. These were normal folks.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

As for blacks, most whites preferred that all of them—the Barnetts and their fellow Refined as well as poorer folks—stayed among their own. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

But those same folks were sure as certain that Miss Love had had designs on him ever since Miss Mattie Lou took sick, and was after him from the minute he became a widower. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My folks—well, you know how it is. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You got in the Ring, Bri! The Ring! You know how many folks around here wish they had a shot like this? What’s up with you?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

I started spreading my fingers to count it off again but afore I could even get to forty, Pa and the new-free folks turned up the road heading toward the schoolhouse. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

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

"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

“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

It’s enough being dead without folks entering and leaving me like in Ghostbusters. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

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

The white folks surrounding them had red, twisted faces. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just type your message, and the folks at Maple Grove will know you’re starting. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

Curtis worked as a superintendent in an apartment house in Manhattan and he and Minnie were well-off compared to most black folks who came up from the South, because they lived rent-free. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Well, I guess it was fine. I mean, I didn’t have folks to fuss over me like some girls I know.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

She was content to stay in this cabin and do washing for the white folks, though she was old and her back was sore. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"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

“Things are really getting out of hand over there. Some of them folks broke some store windows and started takin’ stuff.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“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

Why did he and his folks have to live like this? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Funny how death can bring out the nicest side in some folks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

At the Dawson affairs, I quietly served chuckling white folks—the president of Du Pont and the governor of Delaware, among others. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They were mighty near as poor as factory folks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Wind and rain beating on old folks and beating on babies. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’ve had all kinds of folks hitting me up because of the battle. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

One of 'em told him that fancy restaurants paid lots of money for this baby lettuce, smaller than the regular kind, to use in rich folks' salads. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But when he heard all about ’em makin’ a town all outa colored folks, he knowed dat was de place he wanted to be. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

That’s for people with money, like the folks who work at the Prudential building. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

But folks who lived here knew St. Helens was the most beautiful mountain in the Cascade Range. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“Collect folks’ dead ones and get ’em buried.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Who brought you here? Your folks out there?” 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You still got any dealings with them Underground Railroad folks?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

And the Occupy folks raise their fists and start yelling and cheering and clapping. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

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

Some of the white people ’round here are always trying to blame everything that goes bad on Settlement folks and we waren’t looking for no trouble. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Politics had traditionally been used against black folks, as a means to keep us isolated and excluded, leaving us undereducated, unemployed, and underpaid. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

Also there were the folks who let things fall or plain dumped them when they no longer had a use for them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Some folks around here allows he’s down south shootin’ our boys alongside the Rebs. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“I got to admit it, folks, it was a dang sight more fun with Miss Love than them times I went by myself.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

I feel like folks behind me are pushing me to climb faster and faster. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Their folks didn't have any extra scratch to give for the itch of hunger. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

Sheriff Jackson said, “The old folks what seent it say God took a notion to scratch his forefinger along the earth, meddling with humans jus’ for a laugh. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

His mouth came wide open, he stood up, his face was now in front of the second hole and, doggone-it-ail, some of the rotten folks in the crowd hollered out, “Two!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Salt Licks folks were getting pretty riled about it, Searcy said, and guessed it would go hard with whatever or whoever was doing the raiding if they ever learned what it was. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"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

“But, Beans,” he said, “if I don’t talk to folks, it will seem weird.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

In the old days it would’ve been a graveyard, but most sensible folks have taken to burning their dead and mounting a cross in a field or yard, like these. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

“Patience, son. You don’t have to lie down anymore, but you’d better stay in the back. People don’t like to see colored kids riding up front with white folks.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some folks never was meant to be loved and he’s one of’em.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Why you try to talk like white folks?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t folks around here have to be bringing in the sheaves or something?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“A lot of folks died after you left home—you left your mother on her dying bed.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“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

However, many folks in Manifest seem to think that a bit unnecessary. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

We had read them so often they almost started to feel the way I’d heard folks talk about scripture, like the words were alive and speaking straight to us. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I still think this world be harder for folks like me and Biddy than for folks that are smart and don’t have a smash-up face. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mostly he tells the new-free slaves that come here ’cause he don’t love nothing more than letting ’em know how amazing him and the rest of us folks in Buxton are. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

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

The very first trillium to bloom was deep red, which was likely why folks call it a “wake-robin.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Some folks even wait down at the box, and then you feel real bad if you don’t have anything for them. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I bet she’s the type of person security folks are trained not to follow. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

"Because I was upset over seeing those old folks put out in the street, that's why. I don't care what you call it, I was angry." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t sound like much but after the war you would see colored folks trave I ing the countryside just like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

When he found out how much it was, he was excited and felt like letting folks know who he was. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

My folks were always worried he’d be the one who would end up in trouble one day. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t that long ago folks didn’t have any sugar. No coffee or tea, either.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colored folks working with white folks, not just for them? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Mr. Washburn pops his head out of the car and says, “Time to go, folks!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

“You reckon colored folks turn white like that if they drown?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In South Carol-liney, if there was some nice smooth water like this big pond, folks would jus’ willy-nilly pull their shoes off and dip their foots in the water, then go home. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“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

Some of the older folks smiled, waving as we hit a chuck hole and bounced. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight folks waren’t interested in nothing but straightening out my mess. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

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

“Leroy, this here’s moving too fast! You got to be careful. That’s a lot of money you talking ’bout to buy your family, and money can make folks do some crazy things.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

"These old folks had all their stuff cluttering up the sidewalk and we cleared the street . . ." "You mean you're interfering with an eviction," he called, starting through the crowd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Older folks water their flowers or bring out their trash cans. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

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

“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

“When I does dat, it dont leave me a whole lot of time to please other folks.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The noise was such that folks stopped what they were doing and ran out of doors to stare. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Or in the middle of a conversation he would suddenly bring himself up short and say: “Richard, old man, why don’t you keep any pictures of your folks around?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Most folks, if they saw a rattler, and had a gun, they would try and shoot it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

Still folks coming down, sounding like an elephant herd. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

“A crew of us have been hired by some folks down there who are buying up all the empty Norvelt homes and adding ’em to their own Roosevelt town.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But those little folks knew things I didn’t have a clue on. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Did the folks inside the buildings know a plane had crashed? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Spent all day in the fields, just like most of the folks in our town. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

Now, for the first time, lynchings were being publicly spoken about in the news, whereas before they seemed to be a silent hobby of the white folks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

As folks came down and sat at the table, I learned their names by listening. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I now found it irresistible to roam during the day while my mother was cooking in the kitchens of the white folks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d heard the white folks call it a coffle or drove, but to her it was always simply the chain gang. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved out from behind our tree and walked over toward the biggest fire, I waited until some folks noticed me, then said, “Excuse me, is this here Hooperville?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“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

“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

The sights, the smells, the rhythm of the folks, the feeling in the air. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“When gas runs out, they just get out and walk. See, that family there. Hitchhiking. Thousands of folks are trying to leave New Orleans.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t get why folks act like being poor is a disease, like it’s wrong or something. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

Could that be why the sequoias make folks nervous? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Do your folks know you are selling these papers?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Oh! Yeah. They got a sign up. I guess quite a few folks come to see it. It does the town some good.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

For a lot of folks all over the country, those roads pass through places like this. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was hard to keep up with her studies when she had to “make dresses and comb hair for other folks.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You have as many as you want. One of the few perks of working for fine folks like the Carutherses is getting to spoil yourself just a tiny bit.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Look at all them folks watching you. Hush.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know much about how the Indian schools work, but I’ve heard they’re less focused on teaching folks how to kill the dead than they are civilizing them, whatever that means. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

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 laugh at the barber who cracks jokes on the folks who come in. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“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

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

There were a few folks standing in the aisle, and she leaned around them to talk. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A sideboard is the same as what folks nowadays call a counter. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Camp would of gone the same way as Arthur if it had been left up to his folks. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Did my best, guy. I like to please the folks who bunk with criminals.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My folks taught me to be respectful of people. 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

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

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

“No work today, anyway. People typically don’t bury folks the day after a holiday.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

—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

“Fine. I’m old school. Don’t care nothin’ about folks who dishonor traditions as old as Africa. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

I’ve soon looked in all the windows of the houses with lights on, and none of the folks I see are the Spencers or Katherine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

By first dark, Aunt Loma’s little house was filling up with folks who had brought food and were waiting to speak to the new widow before settling in to eat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

“Can he help us get in touch with our folks?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Lessons learned from the old folks whose milky-light eyes watched everything they did, commented on it, and told each other what it was. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how many times I had to tell folks you was just a babe, and not five or six years old, that that was why you wasn’t walking or talking.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Number two, never tell folks my next move. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m an American. My folks have some French blood, why I have a nose like this. I’m an American, all right.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

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

Most folks would drink their free ice water and shop a bit before moving on. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

Then, because I’m a minor, my folks had to fill out paperwork so that I could be signed over and returned to their custody. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you know that white people kill black people from time to time, and most folks shake their heads and say, ‘Eh, eh, eh, ain’t that a shame?’ Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“More like white folks than some white folks.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He says he’s got to the bottom of why colored folks are treated bad and he’s going to tell the President and have things changed, see? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

I guess by then most folks, white folks anyway, had all forgotten. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the folks didn’t have clean water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

“What do you think the old folks are talking about?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

Sheets are just too personal a thing for folks who aren’t kin to be fooling with. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“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

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

“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

My mother talks about folks who are well-meaning. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once you got a bit closer, it started sounding like there were two folks playing music and you could hear something that sounded like CHUH! coming from Mr. Leroy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Folks complain every morning ’bout how many got to share it and people taking too long to do their business and how some folks got nasty habits. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I felt a little drunk with success, so I read the letters from the tax folks. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“They say we stink. But my ma says white folks smell like dead folks.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

Bread sold here for five cents a loaf, but across the “line” where white folks lived, it sold for four. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

"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

The few problems I had with black folks were nothing compared to the grief white folks dished out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Some folks got into an argument about whether the Fourth of July was a better holiday than Memorial Day, and they really enjoyed that, too. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And ’cording to the only folks who was there to witness the whole fuss, the word kept tumbling outta me o’er and o’er for more’n half a day. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“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 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

“It’s because you’re from Japanese folks,” he said softly; it was more a question than a statement. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

“Free up Belle. We better get down there. Won’t be but a handful of folks to round up cattle with that town meeting.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The risen dead will lie down during the winter, since, like most folks, they don’t much care for the cold. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“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 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

As we neared the end of it, there were shouts and whistles and cheers from the folks crowded there, and finally a burst of clapping. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

The Swarm was an interstellar gang of crooks and thugs who harassed folks for no good reason. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Most folks immediately take to the general store, a line of dark faces lining up out front waiting to spend their money. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"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

“Most white folks I know scuffle for every scrap of food they get.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep your eyes open and don’t mess with the women folks,’’ Sergeant Simpson said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa was still humming and Ma and Mrs. Holton were starting in on something the growned folks don’t like talking ’bout much in front of us, ’bout the times they were slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“Lot a folks think if you talk back to you husband, you crossed the line. And that justifies punishment. You believe in that line?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

Aunt Florentine had a knack for talking sense to folks. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

People like the sleep-in maid for Beacon Hill white folks who used to come in with her ‘ ‘ooh, my deah” manners and order com plasters in the Jew’s drugstore for black folks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s always somebody like him, looking to make folks miserable. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was counting on the commotion of the Queen’s ball to distract folks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then, some other folks had turned and was listening in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Yeah. I went out on the highway to watch them pass. I ’as thinkin’ it might be folks I knew from White County. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“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

“Excuse me, folks,” he said, and then in a lower voice to Ifemelu, “It’s Shan. I’ll be right back,” and walked into the kitchen to take the call. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

You banished me to the old folks’ home for a week, and you want to talk to me about “fair”? Steven, you know we had to take care of your brother. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t need anything from them white folks.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

At least none of the Black folks I knew. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Go right ahead, folks,” the tour guide told us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On a warm Saturday we could hardly wait on customers for taking folks to ride. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the suburbs, most folks look like Dad and Trey. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Ares folks got up, and Clarisse muttered a dazed curse. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

Genie tried not to be nosy—in grown folks’ business. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

He never could talk to his folks and he stayed tied up in knots. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You got it. No bank. They don’t give loans to black folks.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

In Ninth Ward, some folks claim grandchildren when their parents are dead. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

“You laying there in that bed without a dime or a friend to your name having done all the dirt you did in this town and you still expect folks to love you?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Know Sophie Tucker, know Duke Ellington, know folks I ain’t never heard of. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 say it’s wrong, but if I had my druthers, I’d ride a mule over a horse any day. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Even though the town is in the middle of the rez, the white folks in that town decided they didn't want to be a part of the rez. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I reasoned thet them mountain folks would feed a preacher and put him up, and then buy his blankets and needles to hep with the Lord’s work. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Every year, folks say, “Hurricane season is going to be bad.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

As a certified nursing assistant, or a CNA for short, she figured there’d never be a shortage of sick folks needing assistance. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

A couple of folks glance at Chris with that “what the hell is this white boy doing out here” look. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

There are a few colored folks mixed in with the group, but they mostly look white, scarily nondescript and similar in that way shamblers get when they’ve been not-dead for a while. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

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

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

But then as the cities were cleared out and recaptured, folks got civilized once again. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

On Facebook, he posted a picture Ifemelu had taken of him standing on the verandah with Ranyinudo’s cousins, and he captioned it: No lions yet to eat me, folks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

The number of folks in the streets must be increasing as word of the approaching horde begins to make its way through the town. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

I told the Preacher, “All the growned folks said we gotta stay away from this. They said there’s gambling and all sorts of horrible things going on there.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

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

“Most folks go to bed pretty early around here.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“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

The old folks tried to make her happy. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“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

“Especially to the old folks who depend on this food.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The folks who are related to the person who died are called the family. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“She cook and wash and iron. Come here, gal. Let the folks see you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Quiet. But if he ever said something, folks would listen. And Lord, did he read—that man was a regular library.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“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

No wonder you hear about rich folks going to restaurants once a week, this was great! 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

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

“Not enough folks by my reckoning. I thought we could go over there and talk some sense.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

And these were poor folks too, but they were so proud of us that they didn’t mind doing without some things so’s we could have the bell. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

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

“You know, Hattie, folks are looking at one another hard these days.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

And I hoped his folks would stay out really late. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took me to clubs and he was well known to folks there. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not his fault. There aren’t enough middle-class black folks to go around,” Bill said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Never look them in the eyes; always be respectful; remain humble; remember that they are good, fine people; don’t make folks angry; never run around by yourself; be careful, be careful, be careful. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

I can never get why grown folks will put a kid all alone in a bedroom at night. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bigger wanted to comfort them in the presence of the white folks, but did not know how. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

“Oh, I met them. You don’t have to worry about them, Jane. The funny thing about rich folks is they never remember the hired help. I assure you, my secret is safe.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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