How It Feels To Be Coloured Me: Realizing Color
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The quote from “How It Feels to Be Coloured Me” shows that Zora Neale Hurston is a strong woman. She realizes that no one is going to hand her anything. No one is going to help her and give her what she wants. She has to go out there herself and get it. “No one on earth ever had a greate ....
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.... to Jacksonville, FL., a larger more diverse city, she see’s what it’s like to be coloured. It’s thrown into her face. All the black people aren’t doctors, lawyers, butchers and postal workers like they were in Eatonville. As she states, “I feel most coloured when I am thrown into a sharp white backround.” She realizes that not everyone is the same anymore as they were in Eatonville. She knows that she’s “not in Kansas anymore”, similar to what anyone would feel being ....
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