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matter the color of our skin we are all still the same. The world has changed but

to this day some will sit back and ponder your last response wondering if that was a subtle

insult brought upon by the color of their skin. She made the comment "I do not belong to the

sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown

dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it.

She says that if all the bags were emptied into a heap and refilled there would be little

difference.

In the piece "How it Feels to be Colored Me" Hourston also describes an

experience she had with a white person that made her feel the true color of her skin. "

She feels the color of their skin makes them react in these ways. Yet in this part she blames the difference on just

that. This is where she is

disagreeing with the rest of her piece. She

portrays herself as a brown bag propped against a wall with other colored bags. " She is feeling

so many different emotions from the music yet these emotions are not shared with the

white man sitting next to her. "My face is painted red and

yellow and my body is painted blue. They blame

everything bad that happens to them on the color of their skin. When the

contents of these bags are emptied you find many things that are priceless and worthless. " She makes a very good point here that

African Americans tend to have the attitude that they were ripped-off. She

talks about the music making her feel as if she's in a jungle.