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“And yet I also rail against having every action I take reduced to a social construct stemming from my religion, stripping me of the complexities of multidimensional thought. I am a human, not a figurehead. I have always chafed at owning other people’s notions about my identities, be it what it means to be a mother or a member of Congress.”
― Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman