How It Feels to Be Colored Me
By Zora Neale Hurston
On album Ms. Alexander's ENG 250 Class (Fall 2015)

United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief. I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to…
…seemed strange to me for I wanted to do them so much that I needed bribing to stop, only they didn't know it. The colored people gave…
…no dimes. They deplored any joyful tendencies in me, but I was their Zora nevertheless. I belonged to them, to the nearby hotels, to the…