Malebo Sephodi Quotes

#1. To misbehave us to denounce the social norms that limit individuals based on who they are. That to make history is to upset patriarchy, a system that is intent on controlling and marginalising others.

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#2. In nude protests, the very same body that is objectified and subjected to endless scrutiny and policing is used to reclaim power.

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#3. I am art.
I am authentic.
I am love.
I am me.

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#4. Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them

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#5. It is traumatic to find out that so much of what you have been taught to believe and stand for is actually used to control you

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#6. In being everything for everyone, when am I anything for myself?

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#7. I do criticise the narrative that excludes women and continually put men in the forefront.

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#8. Yes I am aware of the rules.
Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.
Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.
That gives my soul its melodies.

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#9. Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my body

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#10. This life is not about getting it right
It's about taking the steps that will
show who you are
There is no prescribed formula
Just try and figure it out with every step

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#11. I am shedding.
I am not a new me.
I am my old me in my new me.
I remain, carved with the soul of my knife.
My mess scattered all over my countenance.
I am me.
Take me as I am.

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#12. I personally am tired of being a subject of study and rescue. A subject that is not imagined upon to have their own thought patterns.

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#13. How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to many others?

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#14. The most beautiful thing is that despite the shallow life we sometimes succumb to - the soul has no timeline and it knows what it wants and will yearn within until it seeks the journey

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#15. And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can tell you how to live your life

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#16. What you allow inside of you will settle there unless you find an effective way to work it out.

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#17. In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness

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#18. On top of dealing with the emotional trauma associated with conscious and unconscious recalling, you must deal with the possibility of no one believing you or making you doubt your experiences. When women speak out about their abusers, they have to deal with the police and society not believing them

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#19. It is the very thing I thought I could never be that the real me has settled into like a puzzle. Who would have thought I could be me?

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