We also have a fundamental right to not carry a pain that we did not choose. Whether you’re born black or gay or a woman or Jewish, you didn’t choose it. You have to be the person in charge of it saying your story, again and again. When it is something you are forced to recount, there’s something violent about it…

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We also have a fundamental right to not carry a pain that we did not choose. Whether you’re born black or gay or a woman or Jewish, you didn’t choose it. You have to be the person in charge of it saying your story, again and again. When it is something you are forced to recount, there’s something violent about it…" in the context of "On being able to control your own story in “AUTHOR ÉDOUARD LOUIS SAYS THE UNSAYABLE” in Interview Magazine (2019 Nov 13)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.