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I make sense

Missives on media, marketing and more. Edited by Amar Patel

December 1, 2018

Your silence will not protect you

by Amar Patel in books


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“Your silence will not protect you.”

I don't think I have read a more crucial line this year. It is discomforting and empowering all at once.

What makes this sentence even more curious is that it was written in 1977 by someone confronting their mortality in public for the first time. The author? A self-proclaimed “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”.

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