Caster Semenya

running makes me feel free but also grounds me.

people were more concerned with surviving than dreaming.

I would say I was being treated like an animal, but I grew up tending to my family’s livestock, and we treated them with more respect than that.

I’m a different
kind of woman, I know. But I’m still a woman.

It is not in my nature to give up

I am not here to prove my humanity

maintaining dignity in the face of oppression

she carried herself with a dignity that made her seem much taller.

it seemed the rest of the world thought I was some kind of monster.

And I was never afraid to speak my mind.