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There is something about poverty that smells like death. dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. the soul lives in sickly air. people can be slaveships in shoes.

-Zora Neale Hurston

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There Is Something About Poverty That Smells

Zora Neale Hurston

There is something about poverty that smells like death. dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. the soul lives in sickly air. people can be slaveships in shoes.

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Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. and then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.

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If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. your shoe-constriction has you confined. at night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. dreams glide deeper.

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. you will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. you will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. you will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. for every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the tv comedy of american life.

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