If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
— Marcus Mosiah Garvey
“I wish people believed in themselves, as much as they did the Illuminati”
-Dean Atta
Ok, so I wrote this after being challenged by my coach at the time,
to write a piece that rewrote some of the negative self talk I had going on.
To transcend the labels, boxes and ‘professional expectations’ that were keeping me from breathing-the-f*ck-out.
If the world is a theatre,
I won’t talk on systems of oppression on the big stage, while consciously continuing to dance its dance on the small one.
Eventually, we must move beyond an intellectual understanding and toward a practice of embodied knowing.
You’re here because I’m relearning
that to compromise
part of who you are
is to compromise all of who you are.
And because,
finding the courage
to resist the norms
of the dominant culture
is liberation.