Look For The Beauty In Things.

There Are Great Parents Of Small Children - They Keep Their Little Hair In Bows - But Those Parents Are Not Always Good Parents Of Young Adults. As Soon As Their Children Get Up To Some Size, It's "shut Up, Sit Down, You Talk Too Much, Keep Your Distance, I'll Send You To Europe!" My Mom Was A Terrible Parent Of Small Children But A Great Parent Of Young Adults. She'd Talk To Me As If I Had Some Sense.

Bringing The Gifts That My Ancestors Gave, I Am The Dream And The Hope Of The Slave. I Rise. I Rise. I Rise.

On This Platform Of Peace, We Can Create A Language To Translate Ourselves To Ourselves And To Each Other.

The Music Was My Friend, My Lover, My Family.

We Do The Best We Can With What We Know, And When We Know Better, We Do Better.