How it Feels to be Colored Me
by Zora Neale Hurston

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"How it Feels to be Colored Me" is a personal essay that speaks to the real-life experiences of its author, Zora Neale Hurston. First published in 1928 in The World Tomorrow—a progressive American political magazine that often published Harlem Renaissance writers—"How it Feels to be Colored Me" focuses on Hurston's coming-of-age experience with racial identity.