Well said:
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Another favorite line from Hurston:
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
(Source: Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” 1928).