How It Feels To Be Coloured Me: Realizing Color The quote from “How It Feels to Be Coloured Me” shows that Zora Neale Hurston is a strong woman. She realizes that no one is going to hand her anything. No one is going to help her and give her what she wants. She has to go out there herself and get it. “No one on earth ever had a greater chance for glory. The world is to be won and nothing to be lost…It is thirilling to think—to know that for any act of mine, I shall get twice as much praise or twice as much blame.” By this statement she means that the world is out there to be had. There isn’t anyone who is going to hand you over