Assignment task: After reading Hurston's "How It Feels to be Colored Me," answer the following questions thoroughly with examples/details to support your ideas.
"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 is beyond me."
A great deal of Hurston's denial of the adverse psychological effects of racism is bravado. How does the tone of the above lines from "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" convince its readers that she has personally overcome racism? Does her attitude seem like one that other African Americans could adopt and use to face American society, or does it seem like it would only perhaps work for Zora Neale Hurston?