Zora Neale Hurston in “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” describes how her image of herself changed as other people’s perceptions of color was imposed upon her throughout her life. She writes about how she accepts who she is, not as a color, black, but all that she is made up of. Black was how other people perceived her and was not as much of a problem for her it as it was …showed first 75 words of 453 total…

…showed last 75 words of 453 total…Zora Neale Hurston is, part of the “brown bag of miscellany”(1769). In this bag she is a complex woman “ a jumble of small things priceless and worthless”(1769). She feels her skin color is not the problem; it is society’s view of her color that is the problem. Works Cited Hurston, Zora Neale. “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”. in Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay. Robert DiYanni, ed. Boston:McGraw-Hill, 1998. 1766-1769.