"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." ~Zora Neale Hurston
Silence has never unfucked anything! And is it a coincidence that those who prefer your silence are those who inflict your pain and/or, no matter how tangentially, benefit from it? It is no surprise that some of those benefiting from your torment also look like you (a verifiable fact as old as slavery and all other forms of injustice themselves) and join the chorus for your silence?
Make no mistake, speaking truth to power and speaking truth in our communities carry the same risks.
As if that is not enough ...
they have no problem muzzling our agony as we fight to breathe, all the while the squeal of their discomfort pierces the drum of even the deaf ear.
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