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I am from my mother and father.

I am from love.

I am from an educated family.

I am from “I only push you hard because I see how great you can be”, “chubby face”, “your beautiful inside and out, “love”, “you can have anything in the world if you work hard”.

I am from New York.

I am from the creation of God.

I am from this idea of love.

I am from passion.

I am from diversity.

I am from the engagement of life.

I am from experience.

I am from a world where money is everything.

~Katherine Dunham~

“A man crosses the street in rain,
stepping gently, looking two times north and south,
because his son is asleep on his shoulder.
 
No car must splash him.
No car drive too near to his shadow.
 
This man carries the world’s most sensitive cargo
but he’s not marked.
Nowhere does his jacket say FRAGILE,
HANDLE WITH CARE.
 
His ear fills up with breathing.
He hears the hum of a boy’s dream
deep inside him.
 
We’re not going to be able
to live in this world
if we’re not willing to do what he’s doing
with one another.
 
The road will only be wide.
The rain will never stop falling.
 
~ Naomi Shihab Nye ~