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“Sometimes I just want to be comfortable in this skin, this body. Want to cock my head back and laugh loud and free, all my teeth showing, and not be told I'm too rowdy, too ghetto. ... Sometimes I just want to let my tongue speak the way it pleases, let it be untamed and not bound by rules.” quote by Renée Watson — Download Open image

““Sometimes I just want to be comfortable in this skin, this body. Want to cock my head back and laugh loud and free, all my teeth showing, and not be told I'm too rowdy, too ghetto. ... Sometimes I just want to let my tongue speak the way it pleases, let it be untamed and not bound by rules.””

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