And here it was happening to me when I was ten. It's the worst thing that can happen to a woman. A bitch can turn twenty-five hundred tricks a day and she still don't want nobody to rape her. Even if you're a whore you don't want to be raped. The next thing I knew, my mother and a policeman broke the door down. Suddenly, when I was catching my breath, I heard more hollering and shouting. When Holiday was ten, a neighbor raped her. James Baldwin takes the dehumanization theme further and suggests it does not just reduce a man to a body, it can reduce him to a fearful, angry, vengeful body. On hunger and poverty, George Orwell discovered that unrelenting hunger reduces a man to a body, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel felt similarly after being imprisoned in Auschwitz. Photograph by Michael Ochs.īorn impoverished to a teenage mother, Holiday grew up fast.
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