He begins to talk about his childhood experience in a black town, where he has no idea of ​​the difference from other whites. “During this time, to me, white people differed from black people only in that they passed through the city and never lived there.” (417). Then he immediately notices the difference at the age of thirteen. However, unlike most other people of color, she didn't talk much about how unequally she was treated or her anger toward discrimination. Instead he said, “But I don't have a tragic color” and “I don't mind at all” (417). By saying this, Zora wants her reader to know that she didn't feel any self-hatred for who she was and what color skin she had, she showed who she was and how she said "I don't mind"