For instance at Barnard.

I AM COLORED but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I'm the only black person in the United States hollyview apartments whose grandfather on the mother's side'm not an Indian chief.
I remember the day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. hollyview apartments It is exclusively a colored town. The only white people I knew, by the city or go pass from Orlando. The native whites rode dusty horses, the Northern tourists chugged hollyview apartments on the sandy village road in automobiles. The town knew the Southerners and never stopped cane chewing when they passed.
But the Northerners were something else again. hollyview apartments They were on carefully peered behind curtains by the timid. Come the more venturesome would be observed on the porch, they pass and got just as much pleasure to the tourists as the tourists hollyview apartments got out of the village.
The porch could be a risky place for the rest of the city, but it was a gallery hollyview apartments space for me. My favorite place was atop the gate? Post. Proscenium box for a born first? Nighter. I not only enjoy the show but I did not mind the actors knowing that I liked it. I usually spoke to them in passing. hollyview apartments I'd wave at them and when they returned my salute, I would say something like: "? Howdy do well I thank you, where yougoin '" Usually automobile hollyview apartments or the horse stopped at this, and after a queer exchange of compliments I would probably "go part of the way" with them, as we say in farthest hollyview apartments Florida. If one of my family happened to come forward in time to see me, of course negotiations are discontinued rude. But it is clear that I 'welcome? Order? Ourstate "was the first Floridian, and I hope that is the Miami Chamber of Commerce, please take note.
During this period, white people differed from colored to me only in that they rode through town and never lived there. You want to hear me II speak sing pieces "and and wanted to see me dance the parse? Me? La, and gave me generously of their small silver for doing these things, which seemed strange hollyview apartments to me I wanted to do them so much that I stop bribery required, only they did not know. The colored people gave no dimes. They deplored any joyful tendencies in me, but I was their Zora nevertheless. I belonged to them, to the nearby hotels, to the county? everybody's Zora.
But changes came in the family when I was thirteen

years old, and I was sent to school in Jacksonville. I left Eatonville, the town of the oleanders, a Zora. When I landed from the river? Boat Jacksonville, she was no more. It seemed that I suffered a great change. I was not Zora of Orange County any more, I was now a little colored girl. I found it in some way. In my heart and in the mirror, I was not quick to rub brownwarranted are ongoing.
But I am not tragically colored. hollyview apartments There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not take long to find the sobbing school Negro Hood, the nature has somehow they keep a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are, but about it. Even in the helter? Skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seer, that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not cry the world? I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter

of slaves. It fails to register

with me depression. Slavery is 60 years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American told of a potential slave: "On the track" The Reconstruction said "Get set!" And the generation before I'm off to a flying start and I'm not allowed to "Go!" hollyview apartments the route to stop crying for a behind hollyview apartments and. Slavery is the price I paid for civilization, and the choice was not with me. It is a bully adventure and worthi.all that pays 1 through my ancestors for it. No one on earth ever had a greater chance for glory. To win the world and nothing to lose. It's exciting hollyview apartments to think? Knowing that twice for any action of mine, I'm gonna get so much praise or twice as much blame. It is quite exciting to hold the center of the national stage, with the spectators not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
The position of my white neighbor is much more difficult. No brown specter pulls up a chair next to me, when I sit to eat me. No dark ghost thrusts his leg against mine in bed. To pause the game, what you have is never as exciting as getting the game.
For instance at Barnard. "In addition to the waters hollyview apartments of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock rose, and overswept, but through everything, I remain myself. When he covered the waters, I am, and the low tide, but rev