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About me:

"....respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe." - Richard Dawkins

"All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

"We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?...Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you....And, as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates other." - Marianne Williamson

I hope...
To manifest my dreams before I manifest my fears
To navigate beyond the treachery of self despair
To find the balance between all I sense and all I see
To find the patience and the strength it takes to let it be
To stand amongst the crowd and have the strength to hold my own
To throw away the pen and pad and simply be the poem
To rise above hatred to love through seeming contradiction
To seldom take a side and learn to compliment the friction
To bring about the change within that I can't live without
To shift and re-arrange ideals and learn to deal with doubt
To voice the victory and unlearn ways of self-defeat
To learn the value of, "Yo, fuck the words just ride the beat"
To leave the comfort zones of all I know to all I feel
To step beyond the void and realize the unknown is real
To re-imagine every obstacle as just means of honing craft and learn to laugh at failures funny dream
To not allow the worshipers to take up all the space
To dance at funerals and grieve when true love shows its face
To meditate upon the lesser things like hair and nails
To find new meaning in my freedom when my freedom kills
To walk the runway on the one day when I've lost my stride
To show my face when I feel more inclined to run and hide
To keep it gutter when I utter
(-Adapted from Saul Williams)