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I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

You can't be a victim and heal.

You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

I don't want to be a victim.

The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.