She begins to talk about her experience growing up in a black town, where she has no idea how different she is from other white people. “During this period, to me, white people differed from people of color only in the fact that they rode through town and never lived there. » (417). Then she immediately realized the difference at the age of thirteen. However, unlike most other black people, she did not talk much about the inequality she was treated with or her anger at the discrimination. Instead, she said, "But I'm not tragically colored" and "It doesn't bother me at all" (417). By saying this Zora wants her reader to know that she didn't feel hatred towards herself because of who she was and the color of her skin, she showed who she was and as she mentioned , “it doesn’t bother me".