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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.
- Lessons
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together in national media is so misleading.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Bad mother' is probably the worst thing you can say to any woman who has children.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would consider running for office. But not for mayor.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really hard to get enough sleep, so I try to end my days by 9 P.M. so my husband and I have time to watch TV, chat, and then I like to read for at least half an hour before bed, but we have a lot of events, and there are places to go and people to talk to.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I had more time to read.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am more than just a label. Why are people so driven to labeling where we fall on the sexual spectrum?
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know my husband loves me fiercely and passionately. I know he supports me and will always stand up for me.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.
- I Came
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came out at 17.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a woman and a person of color; I know what it's like out there in the workplace.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places where I would not see any black people at all in Boston - like, zero. And then in publishing in New York City, it was pretty much the same. I knew that it wasn't about the value of my work.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020