Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
What is Hurston describing when she writes, "I follow those heathen—follow them exultingly. I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head. I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeooww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to slaughter something—give pain, give death to what, I do not know" (NAAL9D p.535).
listening to jazz music in a club
How does Hurston feel about being colored?
nonchalant and indifferent because she has other priorities
Where did Hurston grow up?
Eatonville
To whom would Hurston offer a "Howdy-do-well-I-thank-you-where-you-goin" when she was a young girl in Eatonville?
Northern white tourists bound for Orlando
How does Hurston jokingly say she is different from other blacks in America?
She does not have a Native American grandfather.
How does Hurston feel about being considered both American and colored?
She finds no difference between the two depictions.
How does Hurston feel when she experiences racial discrimination?
surprised
When does Hurston feel most colored?
when she is contrasted with white people
When does Hurston feel it's an advantage to be colored?
when she listens to jazz
When did Hurston first learn that she was colored?
when she moved to Jacksonville to attend school
