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Quotes from How It Feels to Be Colored Me — Zora Neale Hurston

1891–1960 United States

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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me.

How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zora Neale Hurston (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.