He has only heard what I felt.

Zora Neale Hurston
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When you hear a song for the first time, you can imagine what the artist was feeling when they wrote it. But, if you hear a song a thousand times, you can imagine what the artist was feeling when they wrote it.

Source: How It Feels To Be Colored Me

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