Essay: "How It Feels To Be Colored Me." 1928.

Zora Neale Hurston.

10-second review: The title is the best summary.

Quotes: “I was not Zora of Orange County any more, I was now a little colored girl…the granddaughter of slaves.” p. 115.

Quote: “At certain times I have no race, I am me.” p. 117.

Best American Essays of the Century. Editors: Oates and Atwan. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 2000.