My favorite passage in "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" is this:
"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." What strikes me is the tone. Many victims of oppression dwell on the pain they feel. Here, Hurston turns the tables. She practically feels sorry for the people doing the discriminating. How refreshing.
What is your favorite passage from the piece, and why?
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My favorite passage in "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" is this: "I do not always feel colored...I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background." This passage stuck out for me because she is comparing the racism that she has experienced, to something that we all can ralate to. Displacement. She does not hate for the racism she has experienced either. She merley takes it for what it is. She is a strong woman.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite passage in "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" is this: "But I am not tragically colored. There is nogreat sorrow damned up in my soul..." I like this passage because it really shows the characters strenghth. She is not ashamed of who she is or resent being colored as she shouldn't. I can just picture this women saying this and how much courage and self confidence she must have.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite passage in "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" is this: " No, I do not weep at the world-I am to busy sharpening my oyster knife." I like this passage because she is showing people that she is not affraid to be colored or affraid of what they think. She is not ashamed of who she is or where she came from. She is a very strong, independent woman and that's what I like about her.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite passage in "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" is this: "Music. The great blobs of purple and red have not touched him. He has only heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him dimly across the ocean and the continent that have fallen between us. He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored." Hurston uses color as the main theme in this piece, but not just in the terms of race. There are many other ways she connects color with the world as she does in this passage. Although she is "colored" and the man she sits next to is white, the passage is meant to explain much more. The colors she is are purple and red. For her, this is simply about emotions. She is full of emotoional colors caused by the music. She sees a difference between herself and the white man not because the actual color of thier skin, but because of the different ways they recieve the music. He draws no emotion from the music, where as she is "so colored."
ReplyDeleteMy favorite passage in "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" is this: "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. I merely astonishes me, How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me." This is my favorite passage because even though she is black she didnt feel discriminated against. She thought she was a good as the white people and it was anyones loss who didnt want her company. She thought that there was no reason the whites should be considered any better thn she.
ReplyDeleteIn the passage "How it Feels to Be Colored", my favorite passage was, " I feel my race. Among a thousand whites, I am the dark rock surged upon and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself...". I think that this in my favorite because she knows that she is differnet, and doesn't care. She doesn't put on a face to look good for everyone else. She will be who she is and that is that. I think that everyone should follow her steps and be more secure. We shouldn't have to put on an act to try to get people to accept us.
ReplyDeletemy favorite passage in "How it Feels to be Colored Me" is this: " at certain times i have no race, i am me." i like this because it shows that she doesnt care about her color. she never looked at her color as an issue and it isnt. her color doesnt stop her from living and thats what stands out to me. i think that race shouldnt ever be an issue because when you really think about it, its just skin.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite passage in "How it feels to be Colored Me" is this: "Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that i am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you." I like this because it shows that she isn't living in the past. She wants to move on and not dwell on slavery. She also doesn't let other people bring her down because of her race Which I think makes her a very strong woman.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite passage in "How it feels to be Colored Me" is this: " I do not always feel colored. Even now i often achieve the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hegira. I feel most colored when i am thrown against a sharp white background." I really liked this quote because in the beginning she starts to talk about how she really doesn't feel colored always, and transitions into revealing how she really feels sometimes. How she feels most colored in front of a sharp white background.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite passage in "How It Feels To Be Colored Me" is this: "I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored." I liked this passage because it shows that even though she's colored she doesn't feel any different from anyone else. This shows how strong of a person she is and how she won't break under anyone's descrimination.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite passage in this piece is the beginning when she is describing her old town. It interested me to learn that there was an all black town in Florida. It was also interesting to learn that the few white people who passed through the town were friendly to Zora.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite passage in "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" is this: " No, I do not weep at the world-I am to busy sharpening my oyster knife." I think this applys to me because i dont like to feel bad and try to stay posative. i know there is alot that happens in the world and i can only do so much i can't change anyone or stop the bad things in this world i can only be me and do what i can for my part.
ReplyDeletemy favorite was when she was informing me about how it is to be black foe her and how for her it how she truly doesnt feel black
ReplyDeleteMy favorite passage in "How it feels to be colored me" is "To put it simply, I equated these urban cowboys with racist white folk- People I called "red-necks" in my less politically correct days." This qoute stuck out to me. It showed how strong she was to forgive the people that harrassed her. It also showed how mature she was to stop calling them racist names even though they were doing that to her.
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