2014 speak your mind scholarship slam
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As I inhale and exhale and I feel my heartbeat, I know that I am LIFE.
When I die, will it matter that I don't desire a husband, that I prefer a wife?
Our culture has created a monster.
Society says that to be pretty you have to be thin, blond, blue eyes, etc.
My little sister doesn't think she's pretty enough. She wants to dye her hair, lose weight, etc.
It's so hard to be heard in this world
Though the words you speak may be true pearls
Be true to youself through the pain and the madness
For that is how you will be delivered from the sadness
Do you know what it's like,
To like boys and girls in a small, Southern
Predominantly Christian town?
To hear your peers talk about homosexuality being wrong and weird?
