It is strange that two of the most prominent artists of the Harlem Renaissance could disagree or be as different as Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright. Even though they are the same color and lived in the same era, they don't have much else in common. On one side is Hurston, a writer who dabbles in black art and culture and creates subtle messages throughout her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. On the other hand, Wright, a male writer, demonstrates that white people do not like black people, and that they never will, except when they find themselves in the following condition: "...America loves see black people live: between laughter and tears. » Hurston was also a less political writer than Wright. When she wrote about political topics, she expressed her beliefs with great subtlety. After analyzing some summaries of Richard Wright's works, it is clear that he used violence to make his political statements. It's not just the actions of Wright's characters in The Native Son and Uncle Tom's Children that are violent; in many cases, Wright himself seems very sensitive to any sort of racial provocation. In The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, he details some of his encounters with racial oppression. Many of them feature violence, and his reflections on his experiences become less and less emotional, almost from when that was all he expected from white people. It's probably because of his incidents with white people that Wright doesn't approve of "Uncle." Toms,” black people who act like they’re white or try to please white people. In "Between Laughter and Tears", his review of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, a famous black novelist, he accuses Hurston of having...... middle of paper ......d Me ." Mules and men. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Grand-Jean/Hurston/Chapters/how.html (accessed August 2, 2010). ———. “Stories of conflict.” The Saturday Review (New York), April 2, 1938. ———. Their Eyes Were Watching God. 2006. Reprint, New York: Harper Perennial: Modern Classics, 1937. Kinnamon, Keneth. and Society. 1973. Reprint, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972. “Richard (Nathaniel) Wright (1908-1960”) Books and Writers. August 2, 2010). Wright, Richard. “Between Laughter and Tears.” In Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present. Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and KA Appiah. ., 1993.———. The ethics of living Jim Crow: an autobiographical sketch. New York: Viking Press, 1937.