"Hurston is saying in effect, 'I am colored but I am different from other members of my race in that I am not different from my race" ("Race, Reading, and Difference 319).

The word "race" when brought to mind can either divide us as a people or unite us. It can distinguish the different divisions of humankind by such differences as skin color, geographical region, or grouping or it can unite us as a single people, a single race; the human race. If taken in context from the above quote by Zora Neale Hurston in Barbara

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