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“A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.”

Whole Body Eye Used Strong Church Music Feet Influence Tears Holiness Heirs Expressive Great Influence

Author:Mahalia Jackson

“Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.”

Men Made Soul Body Earth Evil Energy Christianity Struggle Tears Pure Weak Flesh Vain Torture Injury Diseased Inception

Author:Emma Goldman

“I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets.”

Body Song Bits Dark Cities Streets Tears Holes Betray Pregnant Ache

Book:Mid-American Chants

Source: Mid-American Chants

“All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.”

Body Running Streets Tears Wall Rain Skins Destroyed Hurricanes Posters Peeling

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“Tears are the body's raindrops of emotion.”

Body Emotion Tears Sorrow Raindrops

Author:Robert M. Hensel

“And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud; how the black cord makes of them a single fabric that nothing can tear or mend.”

People Love Two Body Black Tears Proud Stronger Scar Fabric Cords

Book:Of Gravity & Angels

Source: Of Gravity & Angels

“No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.”

Giving Should Body Spirit Gone Tears Giving Back Gifts Of Life Already Gone

Author:Fay Weldon

“I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.”

Mind Body Pieces Tears Baby Losing Operations Mind And Body Childbirth

Book:Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., to which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed

Source: Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., to which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed