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Unfortunately the time in which Hurston wrote was not an ____ one for African American writers. There was very little interest in literature about black families and folklore, and thus her literary career did not blossom.
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Hurston felt that the Supreme Court ruling implied that African Americans were inferior. Older African American writers criticized her, a real test of her endurance, but she had the ____ to not back down.
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After Hurston studied anthropology in college, she was ____ about recording the folklore and cultre of African Americans in the South. Her great enthusiasm led her to publish her first novel.
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Some people accused Hurston of having ____ ideas when she opposed the desegration ruling in 1954, but she was not advocating a return to an earlier policy. She was not an extreme conservative opposed to change.
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There is variety in Hurston's writing, and none of her writing is ____. There is nothing average about it.
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From the love and humor shown in her writing, a reader probably imagines Zora Neale Hurston as having had an air, or ____, of pleasantness about her.
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Hurston did not need to completely ____, or make up, the characters for her stories. She found inspiration for her characters in the lives of the people she knew.
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The importance of Zora Neale Hurston's writing was not recognized at the time she first published her novels, plays, and short stories. Her influence as a writer has passed subtly and softly, like a ____ or gentle breeze.
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