If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That'…

Audre Lorde
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest. ✨ Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). Conversations with Audre Lorde, p.74, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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