How It Feels To Be Coloured Me: Realizing Color

Part I of Essay
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 eart ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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 out of their realm. Unlike the days of her grandfather, when he didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of doing anything with himself, she knows that she has the ability ....