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Jun 28, 2020
"The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance." --Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston: How It Feels to Be Colored Me
"A genius of the South, novelist, folklorist, anthropologist"--those are the words that Alice Walker had inscribed on the tombstone of Zora Neale Hurston. In this essay (first published in The World Tomorrow, May 1928), the acclaimed author of Their Eyes Were Watching God explores her own sense of identity through a series of striking metaphors."
BE THE CHANGE
How does it feel to be you? Take a few moments to pen some of the metaphors that arise as you explore your own sense of identity.
