How It Feels to be Colored Me

How It Feels to be Colored Me was written by Zora Neale Hurston in which she talks about her views on black and white people.
As Hurston was growing up, the difference between black and white was irrelevant. All she knew was that there were no white people that lived in her neighborhood. She would entertain people as they passed through her town, both black and white. Honestly, those days where you are ignorant to the difference between black and white are the best. You have no prejudice against anyone. There is only one race and that's the human race.
It wasn't until she went off to school that she really became aware that she was an African American person. Even then it didn't bother her. She wasn't ashamed to be African American and she continued to live her life. She finally did start taking notice of some of the differences between black and white. She would observe people when they were taken out of a setting where everyone looked like them. However, when she was in a setting like that herself, she still felt at ease.
An interesting quote was "I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored". These quotes bring us back to the question, what is an American? Is America really one country with many different cultures and races? As it stands, I don't think America can really defined by one race. And just like Zora Hurston, we shouldn't have separate feelings about being a certain race and American.