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What if?

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What if I could record the sounds
of voices lost within the walls?

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What if there was time and
space created for people to

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learn, reflect, grow, discover?

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What if it wasn't about money?

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Would it matter?

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Could I be myself and would
I no longer be put in a box?

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What if my language was okay and
it was no longer captive but free?

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If I could speak and still be seen
rather than dusted to the side, as

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if my words aren't speaking truth too?
What if I could be me and you saw my

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face whenever you heard that one of
the most prominent voices to discuss

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the equality of language in education?

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What if I could be a woman, black, thick
and still be seen as the face of a nation?

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What if I reminded you that we could be
different, but that it doesn't stifle you?

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Can you breathe?

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What if I empowered you too,
what if you did the same for me?

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What if my culture was
no longer appropriated?

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What if my culture was seen as culture?

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What if I broke the system?

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How would it recreate itself?

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Would it reform into a
more oppressive beast?

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Or what if I just did it?

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What if I became my
ancestor's wildest dreams?