Which two statements best describe how Their Eyes Were Watching God supports Baldwin's assertions about Black English? Because Hurston uses American English in her novel only occasionally, she clearly feels that her people should be committed to their own language. Hurston's characters are sometimes hard to understand because of their language, so she is clearly hostile to white readers. Hurston writes her characters' dialogue in black English, conveying their accent, vocabulary, and speech patterns with painstaking accuracy By placing American English and black English side by side in her novel, Hurston seems to emphasize their nature as separate languages​