How It Feels to Be Colored Me

<p> <b>The acclaimed author of <i>Their Eyes Were Watching God </i>relates her experiences as an African American woman in early-twentieth-century America.</b> </p> <p>In this autobiographical essay, author Zora Neale Hurston recounts episodes from her childhood in different communities in Florida: Eatonville and Jacksonville. She reflects on what those experiences showed her about race, identity, and feeling different.</p> "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" was originally published in 1928 in the magazine <i>The World Tomorrow</i>.