How It Feels To Be Colored MeIn "How It Feels To Be Colored Me" Zora Neale Hurston begins to retract her life in Eatonville, Florida. This small town was a black community and the only white people who ventured into Eatonville were tourists coming from or heading to Orlando, which was just south of Zora's hometown of Eatonville. The town never paid much attention to the southerners who never stopped chewing the sugar cane while they stuck it, but the northerners who came were a different breed. In Eatonville, the timid looked behind the curtains, the more adventurous went to the porch and watched them pass with as much pleasure as the tourist felt in wandering the village. Young Hurston was more adventurous than most and rather enjoyed the interaction she had with casual visitors. She would sit on top of the gate post as she describes it as her favorite place to sit. It was a “front stage dressing room for a born first night”, the equivalent of a podium at the top of a stage. She had no fear in letting the tourist she calls “actors” know that she loved the show. She interacted with them starting with waves, eventually giving “talking bits” to the visitors. If a family member walked out in the middle of a conversation, she should put an abrupt end to it. This is so opposite from my childhood experience in the 90s. When I was a child, I was told not to talk to strangers and taught the universal teaching of "stranger danger" . I was told stories of child abductions and reasons why I should not agree to behave if my parents or grandparents had not told me directly before. If I had to go straight to my grandmothers after school and if I was a few minutes late on the prepaid cell phone my parents gave me right in the middle of paper......because we do trusting real estate agents to help us find a home only for them to promote segregation in this way is shameful. Zora refers to herself as "Cosmic Zora", sometimes stating that she does not belong to any race. I understand this ideal because I firmly believe that we are all connected by a greater power. The feeling of aligning with the universe and its energy intrigues me. Leave behind social class, ethnicity, political position and concentrate on living and enjoying the time given to us on earth. I know like everyone that this is very idealistic. If such an event occurred, there would likely be no progression of civilization. In moments of discrimination, Zora simply asks herself: “How can anyone deprive themselves of the pleasure of my company? This is beyond me,” a phrase I will repeat to myself from now on if I ever experience discrimination or rejection in the future..