Why it is that individualism is questioned when it deals with color? This is the question that is cleverly identified in "How it feels to be the colored me" by author Zora Neale Hurston. She first classifies herself as an individual then secondly as a woman who is colored by using a sarcastic tone in her article. Hurston's attitude and outlook on her native background is very legitimate and fascinating. She is one author that is not afraid to speak or reveal her personal thoughts and opinions.
             Hurston is a very whimsical writer. She uses an analogy to expand her writing. For instance, "...I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red, and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless...this quote demonstrates Hurston's view of individualism beyond race and ethnicity. It is true how people appear to be different physically but like the contents inside the bags, our genuine selves are alike in many ways, regardless of the exterior. People tend to have the same personalities, commonalities, and attributes. Furthermore, when it comes to morality, many people share common ethics and principles.
             Hurston realizes that there are similarities between individuals yet people do possess differences. For instance, when Hurston was at The New World Cabaret with a white person she originally felt the distinction between their respective skin colors. However, as the night progressed and the orchestra started to play, she realized that it was not the skin color that made the distinction between her and her fellow comrade but it was the actual difference in their taste for music. "Music. The great blobs of purple and red have not touched him. He has only felt what I felt. He is far away and I see him but dimly across the ocean and the continent that have fallen between us." She was ...