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How It Feels to Be Colored Me

By: Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Nerissa Bradley
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How It Feels To Be Colored Me was first published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece that focuses on race and 1920s America, Hurston reflects on her early childhood in an all-black Florida town and her first experiences in life where she felt "different."

Hurston focuses on the similarities we all share and on her own self-identity in the face of difference. "Through it all," she says, "I remain myself."

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I am not a POC but I believe this poem is important for everyone to read. Gave me chills

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