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Headings: How It Feels to Be Colored Me, by Zora Neale Hurston
How
 
It
 
Feels
 
to
 
Be
 
Colored
 
Me,
 
by
 
Zora
 
Neale
 
Hurston
 

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"How
 
It
 
Feels
 
to
 
Be
 
Colored
 
Me"
 
by
 
Zora
 
Neale
 
Hurston
 

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"How
 
It
 
Feels
 
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Be
 
Colored
 
Me"
 
by
 
Zora
 
Neale
 
Hurston.
 

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"How
 
It
 
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Colored
 
Me"
 
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Content: How It Feels to Be Colored Me, by Zora Neale Hurston
How
 
It
 
Feels
 
to
 
Be
 
Colored
 
Me,
 
by
 
Zora
 
Neale
 
Hurston
 
"I
 
remember
 
the
 
very
 
day
 
that
 
I
 
became
 
colored"
 

 
genius
 
of
 
the
 
South,
 
novelist,
 
folklorist,
 
anthropologist"--those
 
are
 
the
 
words
 
that
 
Alice
 
Walker
 
had
 
inscribed
 
on
 
the
 
tombstone
 
of
 
Zora
 
Neale
 
Hurston. In
 
this
 
essay
 
(first
 
published
 
in
 
The
 
World
 
Tomorrow,
 
May
 
1928),
 
the
 
acclaimed
 
author
 
of
 
Their
 
Eyes
 
Were
 
Watching
 
God
 
explores
 
her
 
own
 
sense
 
of
 
identity
 
through
 
a
 
series
 
of
 
striking
 
metaphors. Zora
 
Neale
 
Hurston
 
(Source: Carl
 
Van
 
Vechten,
 
photographer,
 
Library
 
of
 
Congress)
 

 
I
 
am
 
colored
 
but
 
I
 
offer
 
nothing
 
in
 
the
 
way
 
of
 
extenuating
 
circumstances
 
except
 
the
 
fact
 
that
 
I
 
am
 
the
 
only
 
Negro
 
in
 
the
 
United
 
States
 
whose
 
grandfather
 
on
 
the
 
mother's
 
side
 
was
 
not
 
an
 
Indian
 
chief. I
 
remember
 
the
 
very
 
day
 
that
 
I
 
became
 
colored. Up
 
to
 
my
 
thirteenth
 
year
 
I
 
lived
 
in
 
the
 
little
 
Negro
 
town
 
of
 
Eatonville,
 
Florida. It
 
is
 
exclusively
 
a
 
colored
 
town. The
 
only
 
white
 
people
 
I
 
knew
 
passed
 
through
 
the
 
town
 
going
 
to
 
or
 
coming
 
from
 
Orlando. The
 
native
 
whites
 
rode
 
dusty
 
horses,
 
the
 
Northern
 
tourists
 
chugged
 
down
 
the
 
sandy
 
village
 
road
 
in
 
automobiles. The
 
town
 
knew
 
the
 
Southerners
 
and
 
never
 
stopped
 
cane
 
chewing
 
when
 
they
 
passed.