Proust Questionnaire: afrodite's answers

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On Sun, 27 May 18 18:09:37 UTC afrodite (41) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To not be able to read or hear music
Where would you like to live?: Tallahassee, FL. It is the perfect mix of town and country
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: I have to agree with Proust. To live in contact with those I love, with the beauties of nature with books and music. However, I must have fashion and sports as well.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To not like sports
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Once again I agree with Proust. I think that's why I prefer DC to Marvel.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Elizabeth I and Zora Neal Hurston
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Like Proust, my favorite heroines are women of genius leading ordinary lives like both of my grandmothers did and my aunts
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Wonder Woman! There are many in contemporary fiction. Classically, I loved Joe from Little Women and Shrug Avery from the Color Purple
Your favorite painter?: None although I enjoy the neoclassical and cubism styles
Your favorite musician?: Prince
The quality you most admire in a man?: Like Proust I would say Intelligence, moral sense but also a sense of humor.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, moral sense but also a sense of humor
Your favorite virtue?: kindness
Your favorite occupation?: Reading
Who would you have liked to be?: I'm not sure what this means.
Your most marked characteristic?: how truly solitary i am compared to what others imagine me to be.
What do you most value in your friends?: trust
What is your principle defect?: laziness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not have worked harder and smarter
What would you like to be?: My best possible self
What is your favorite color?: Purple and blue
What is your favorite flower?: violets
What is your favorite bird?: none but if I must choose a dove as it represents my sorority
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Who are your favorite poets?: Langston Hughes
Who are your heroes in real life?: Granny Ghost (Lucy Rush Frison); Louise Ritchie; my aunts; too many to name
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Every black female slave, Rose Parks, Michelle Obama, all those Rosie the Riveters, those who campaigned for abolition and women's suffrage.
What are your favorite names?: Afrodite (sorority line name), Shaundra and Latoyia ( middle name)
What is it you most dislike?: Hatred and bigotry from anyone
What historical figures do you most despise?: I prefer not to waste time on them. They usually reap their own rewards.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I accept war can be a necessary thing but I prefer to admire the men and women than the act itself.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: More ambition
How would you like to die?: I agree with Proust. A better person and loved.
What is your present state of mind?: I laugh at Proust's answer, but my present state of mind is introspective and slightly bored at work.
What is your motto?: To thy own self be true

Southern belle with a liberal soul. FAMU, Zeta Phi Beta, fashion, sports, music, and culture are just some of my passions.

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