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In the article "How it feels to be colored by me" Zora talks about what it means to be a black person. Zora started off in New York taking 1.50 for herself. She went there not knowing anyone there she didn't know what to expect. She was a very strange person. She wrote many other novels and some people didn't always agree with what she said. So that hurt her a little bit. In the novel "How It Feels To Be Colored Me", Zora speaks about being surrounded by white people. She talks about how she is the only African American whose Grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief. Many African Americans believe that they are defended from an Indian family member so that is why she is comparing them. She makes a simile to her speaking about color bags being propped against the wall she's speaking about all kind of races of people as she says they need to all be together dumped into a pile and rilled at a random order. She says if this was to be done would it really matter to people. What she is trying to get at is people are different but all the same inside.

Although slavery has ended long ago. Although there were still traces of lots of racism. She speaks about how she doesn't speak on people about her color. She speaks on how she doesn't want to go back into her past and dwell on it as her life now is good. In her childhood, she recalls that she didn’t draw a distinction between white and colored people, but by only observing that the former rode through her town but never stopped. She would talk about how black people need to be self-confident. Zora would recite, sing, and dance for the travelers as she accompanied them, and was surprised when the travelers would sometimes give her money for her Singing. Although the colored people never gave her a time she would always be there to present herself.

-Find a scholarly article about your assigned short story and summarize it here.Pindham (talk) 16:20, 20 February 2019 (UTC)