Unshackled
Escaping the Lamp and Finding My Voice
2 min readMay 2, 2023
“Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, “Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?”
— Marco Aurelio
What is the name of the lady who comes out of the lamp? The woman’s name is Africa, which happens to be me. You may wonder, how can it be that someone who…
