Explain how you feel about your skin color; states, “She has no color tragically” (The Norton Anthology American Literature, 2013, p. 9, I think this is about where she grew up. Zora grew up in Eatonville, Florida, a town governed by blacks; she saw only the whites as they passed by throwing the city into another city. Zora states: “I don't always feel black, even now that I have reached the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hijra against a clear white background." (The Norton Anthology American Literature, 2013, p. 942) This passage is about her growing up in an all-black town of three hundred people, also, her feeling more colorful only when she is more colorful around all the white people and being the only person of color , as a child she sang and danced for her neighbors and when the whites were traveling she would say hello and
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