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05-01-07, 02:14 PM
I was just chillin, thinking about my future. You know, wit college and all that u gotta be thinkin bout ur career and family pressure mean i also gotta think about my future family. Then i thought about how people always say you have to know your past to accept your present and forge a future. It got me to question my past, who i am, you know. Sometimes i don't think about me...i just keep going on, planning to go somewhere and i really don't know how where i came from fits in to where i'm going to. this is what came to me and i wanted to share it with y'all.
I'm new by the way, so hi!!!!! sup wit u? no...excuse the language i mean, if y'all aight? My grammar be stupid sometime...forgive me, lmao
Who am i?
I carry the world inside…
I don’t often feel like I know who I am
My nationality only began a few years ago
When they began to include who I am in the forms
British passport, American born,
An Indian, polish, Syrian, Chinese in a body of Jamaican heritage
My world is fragmented into the many names to which I answer
When I have children who will teach them
What will I teach them, if I can’t teach myself?...
If I haven’t been taught?
Who is ‘I’ and where can I find she?
What am I and am I what I was taught to be?
My African heritage is so apparent in the history that I was taught
But what about my story, her story, she, he and their story.
Is it what is inside of me?
Why can’t I just be, exist?
Why is this so important to me?
My black skin is like gold to me.
More precious today then it was yesterday and so on
Something I treasure but do not understand
I fear the power or weaknesses that it gives.
Why am i?
Am I bound by colour, strapped by ‘his’tory?
The slaves before me worked hard to free me
They saved me from a world filled with limitations
But am I enslaved to the slavery that lives on
Not to be recognised, to be feared.
To be misunderstood by coloured peers.
So culturally mixed and colour blind?
My eyes are open wide
But shut firmly as what lurks behind is more disturbing.
You tell me who I am?
You tell me who I am?
You tell me WHO I AM?
We ain\'t invincible
but Lord knows we are magnificent
and blessed
Check for the positive
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05-01-07, 02:14 PM
I was just chillin, thinking about my future. You know, wit college and all that u gotta be thinkin bout ur career and family pressure mean i also gotta think about my future family. Then i thought about how people always say you have to know your past to accept your present and forge a future. It got me to question my past, who i am, you know. Sometimes i don't think about me...i just keep going on, planning to go somewhere and i really don't know how where i came from fits in to where i'm going to. this is what came to me and i wanted to share it with y'all.
I'm new by the way, so hi!!!!! sup wit u? no...excuse the language i mean, if y'all aight? My grammar be stupid sometime...forgive me, lmao
Who am i?
I carry the world inside…
I don’t often feel like I know who I am
My nationality only began a few years ago
When they began to include who I am in the forms
British passport, American born,
An Indian, polish, Syrian, Chinese in a body of Jamaican heritage
My world is fragmented into the many names to which I answer
When I have children who will teach them
What will I teach them, if I can’t teach myself?...
If I haven’t been taught?
Who is ‘I’ and where can I find she?
What am I and am I what I was taught to be?
My African heritage is so apparent in the history that I was taught
But what about my story, her story, she, he and their story.
Is it what is inside of me?
Why can’t I just be, exist?
Why is this so important to me?
My black skin is like gold to me.
More precious today then it was yesterday and so on
Something I treasure but do not understand
I fear the power or weaknesses that it gives.
Why am i?
Am I bound by colour, strapped by ‘his’tory?
The slaves before me worked hard to free me
They saved me from a world filled with limitations
But am I enslaved to the slavery that lives on
Not to be recognised, to be feared.
To be misunderstood by coloured peers.
So culturally mixed and colour blind?
My eyes are open wide
But shut firmly as what lurks behind is more disturbing.
You tell me who I am?
You tell me who I am?
You tell me WHO I AM?
We ain\'t invincible
but Lord knows we are magnificent
and blessed
Check for the positive
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05-01-07, 06:26 PM
First of all, Welcome to blackchat !This is a great place to be for ones self development, you might not get answers to life and the struggles that come with it on blackchat but whatever you'll get is worthwhile. Im recent college graduateso I suppose we are in the same age group.
WHO AM I??? Well that's a question that lingers within the depth of everyones mind and soul at some point in life. The question WHO AM I??? is a taunting question to many of us, it brings about a sense of restlesness, a sense of yearning to find an answer, a sense of immense effervesence of the inner you who you might not yet have identified with trying to connect with the "YOU" that culture, society, religion, heritage has moulded.
In my own experience, "WHO AM I???" is a defiance of what people say I am and of what other people like me, say they are!
WHO AM I??? a lot of people ask themselves that question rhetorically, they think they have got it all figured out therefore they have an answer before they even ask themselves the question!
WHO AM I??? ultimately, no one can give you the answer!an echois heard but people can't make out what was actually being said, the question WHO AM I???is an echo within you ... as you live your life and search for answers, the echo will begin to resonate into an answer or answers you can hear clearly and the choice will be yours whether to accept or not.
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05-01-07, 11:57 PM
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WHO AM I??? ultimately, no one can give you the answer!an echois heard but people can't make out what was actually being said, the question WHO AM I???is an echo within you ... as you live your life and search for answers, the echo will begin to resonate into an answer or answers you can hear clearly and the choice will be yours whether to accept or not.
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Thank you for the warm welcome! much appreciated.
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Its so true, you ask the question before you know the answer, in fact sometimes without wanting to know the answer. It's what you want the answer to be, sometimes its what you need and can handle the answer to be. But i agree the choice of acting and accepting the answer is yours alone to make. Choices are what they are because they are made to be so. Your answers are what you want your answer to be because it suits you. Who you are is best answered through the eyes of those you choose to interpret your being/existence.
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Or thats what i choose to believe; my echo told me so! lol
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We ain\'t invincible
but Lord knows we are magnificent
and blessed
Check for the positive
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05-01-07, 11:59 PM
We ain\'t invincible
but Lord knows we are magnificent
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Check for the positive
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05-01-07, 11:59 PM
We ain\'t invincible
but Lord knows we are magnificent
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Check for the positive
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05-01-07, 11:59 PM
MauMau Shabbaz wrote:
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WHO AM I??? ultimately, no one can give you the answer!an echois heard but people can't make out what was actually being said, the question WHO AM I???is an echo within you ... as you live your life and search for answers, the echo will begin to resonate into an answer or answers you can hear clearly and the choice will be yours whether to accept or not.
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Thank you for the warm welcome! much appreciated.
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Its so true, you ask the question before you know the answer, in fact sometimes without wanting to know the answer. It's what you want the answer to be, sometimes its what you need and can handle the answer to be. But i agree the choice of acting and accepting the answer is yours alone to make. Choices are what they are because they are made to be so. Your answers are what you want your answer to be because it suits you. Who you are is best answered through the eyes of those you choose to interpret your being/existence.
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Or thats what i choose to believe; my echo told me so! lol
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We ain\'t invincible
but Lord knows we are magnificent
and blessed
Check for the positive
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Village Newbie
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05-01-07, 11:59 PM
MauMau Shabbaz wrote:
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WHO AM I??? ultimately, no one can give you the answer!an echois heard but people can't make out what was actually being said, the question WHO AM I???is an echo within you ... as you live your life and search for answers, the echo will begin to resonate into an answer or answers you can hear clearly and the choice will be yours whether to accept or not.
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Thank you for the warm welcome! much appreciated.
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Its so true, you ask the question before you know the answer, in fact sometimes without wanting to know the answer. It's what you want the answer to be, sometimes its what you need and can handle the answer to be. But i agree the choice of acting and accepting the answer is yours alone to make. Choices are what they are because they are made to be so. Your answers are what you want your answer to be because it suits you. Who you are is best answered through the eyes of those you choose to interpret your being/existence.
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Or thats what i choose to believe; my echo told me so! lol
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We ain\'t invincible
but Lord knows we are magnificent
and blessed
Check for the positive
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