My Current Credo

I will not give in.
I will not give in to this.
I will not give in to fear.
I will not give in to their fear.
I will not give in to mine.
I will not give in to hate.
I will not give in to madness.
I will not give in to darkness.
I will not give in to ignorance.
I will not give in to hardheartedness.
I will not give in to small-mindedness.
I will not give in to selfishness.
I will not give in to anger.
I will not give in to greed.
I will not give in to avarice.
I will not give in to pettiness.
I will not give in to fools.
I will not give in to sociopaths.
I will not give in to narcissism.
I will not give in to authoritarianism.
I will not give in to nationalism.
I will not give in to nativism.
I will not give in to jingoism.
I will not give in to capitalism.
I will not give in to hegemony.
I will not give in to apathy.
I will not give in to complacency.
I will not give in to inertia.
I will not give in to lies.
I will not give in even if they call them alternative facts.
I will not give in to bias.
I will not give in to the alt-right.
I will not give in to racism.
I will not give in to sexism.
I will not give in to homophobia.
I will not give in to xenophobia.
I will not give in to Islamophobia.
I will not give in to religious bigotry of any kind.
I will not give in to transphobia.
I will not give in to heteronormativity.
I will not give in to binary thinking.
I will not give in to ableism.
I will not give in to toxic masculinity.
I will not give in to efforts to normalize these things.
I will not give in to shame me.
I will not give in to those trying to erase history.
I will not give in to negativity.
I will not give in when I am feeling overwhelmed.
I will not give in to pressure to stay silent.
I will not give in to writer’s block.
I will not give in.

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About Sherry

Author. Poet. Teacher. Mentor. Chinese/Blackbird.

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