Life is all about living in the moment
‘We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller, we say to girls, “You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful, otherwise you would threaten the man.” ...But what if we question the premise itself? Why should a woman’s success be a threat to a man?
‘I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be. Gender is not an easy conversation to have. For both men and women, to bring up gender is sometimes to encounter almost immediate resistance... Some of the men here might be thinking, “OK, all of this is interesting, but I don’t think
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Name: Merline Chiomba
Nickname: Bunny
Age: 19
Hobbies:
Taking pictures and reading novels
Favorite quote:
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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Quotes of note:
‘I had a moment of realisation, where I thought, “If I choose not to speak out of fear, then there’s no one that my silence is standing for.”’
‘When someone asks me to write a poem that’s not political, what they’re really asking me is to not ask charged and challenging questions in my poetic work. And that does not work, because poetry is always at the pulse of the most dangerous and most daring questions that a nation or a world might face.’
‘If I choose, not out of fear, but out of courage, to speak, then there’s
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something unique that my words can become... It might feel like every story has been told before, but the truth is, no one’s ever told my story in the way I would tell it.
-Amanda GormanSometimes, it takes just one person to make us listen.
