Zora Neale Hurston writes a fascinating piece called "How It Feels to Be Colored Me." In this
             piece, she tells of the days before and after she became colored. In the days before she
             knew of only one difference between white and blacks. She never paid much mind to the
             fact that the rest of the community reacted differently, she did what she wanted. It is the
             same for most kids at her age. They never really understand what is happening in the
             world around them until the world around them believes they're old enough to hear the
             When Hurston turned thirteen she was sent to a school in Jacksonville. She left
             her home as Hourston and enter Jacksonville as a little colored girl. Houston made the
             point that she didn't mind the label the whites put on her. She wouldn't get depressed or let
             it bother her as the other blacks did. 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 makes a very good point here that
             African Americans tend to have the attitude that they were ripped off. They blame
             everything bad that happens to them on the color of their skin. 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.
             In the piece "How it Feels to be Colored Me" Hurston also describes an
             experience she had with a white person that made her feel the true color of her skin. She
             talks about the music-making her feel as if she's in a jungle. "My face is painted red and
             yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum." She is feeling
             so many different emotions from the music yet these emotions are not shared with the
             white man sitting next to her. "He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored."
             She feels the color of their skin makes ...