Gift

“I hear my silence talked of in every lane;
The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.”
― Darshan Singh

“You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
― Warsan Shire

“We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”
― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen