Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain s…

Audre Lorde
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Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside. ✨ Audre Lorde (2012). Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, p.42, Crossing Press
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