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Zora Neale Hurston

African-American man drinking from a "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, mid-20th century

How It Feels to Be Colored Me

“I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong.”

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