Reading
4 Now read the excerpts to check your predictions.
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Excerpt 1
The eight-year-old girl who had never
been told "You're worthy; you're beautiful"
suddenly found herself as a leading lady,
and a mouthpiece for all the women who
looked like her. (...) The obstacle blocking me
was a four-hundred-year-old racist system
of oppression and my own feeling of utter
healing: de cura
mouthpiece: porta-voz
tool: ferramenta
aloneness. My art,
in this instance, was
the best healing tool
to resolve my past,
the best weapon
that I had to conquer
weapon:
worthy:
digno/a
my present, and my gift to t
DAVIS, Viola. Finding me: a memoi
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