I was just sort of waking up to the truth of who we can be: so ready to assume the worst in people. The only thing I can do is share that that does hurt. Because if we walk around pretending like it doesn’t hurt, the perpetrator would just say, “Oh, I was just joking. It’s just politics.”
It’s, like, “No, no. No, no. That changes the shape of a person’s soul.”
-Michelle Obama (Becoming)
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