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you were not a mistake you were not an

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accident you were here for a reason I

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know you're going through some hard

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times I know life at times might feel

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rough or you might feel weird or things

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might be frustrating but it's not going

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to always be like this your condition

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it's not your conclusion I've got to

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just take me five minutes to kind of

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just unpack my story so that you have an

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idea of who I am and why I speak with

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the passion that I speak with there was

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a time when I was in a really dark place

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you know my mom had me when she was 16

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years old I grew up without my

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biological father in my life I struggled

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with years for drug and alcohol abuse

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and I just found myself in a really

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really really weird and dark place I had

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to repeat the seventh grade and when the

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eighth grade came around I'll never

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forget hearing at a parent-teacher

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conference a teacher tell my mom that I

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was a high school material and I came to

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tell you that words are powerful and

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when I heard that statement I remember

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feeling like wow you know like I am

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really really a failure you know like

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it's one thing to tell a student hey

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okay you're about to graduate from high

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school

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you're not college material you're not

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gonna go to the Ivy League maybe you

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should go to a tech school like I've

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heard that right like different people

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have different paths but but how do you

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tell middle school kid that they're not

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ready for high school like it affected

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me and I'll never forget going that next

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year and after a series of events a lot

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of fighting a lot of struggling that

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school in there kicking me out

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they got all bent out of shape because I

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cut the electricity off

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the next year I went to another school

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got the report card at the end of the

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year and because I did not do well and I

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did not put good in when I got that

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final report card all s1c and my mom is

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this tall but when she gets mad she

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turns into the Hulk

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you know and I'm thinking like this is

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not gonna be pretty but I came up with a

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plan I said you know what i'ma change my

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grades so I went to the library I got

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that right out

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I brushed off all the FS in the seat I

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took a fancy pin in the ruler and I put

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some smaller dots and lines and I gave

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myself all A's and two V's then I made a

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copy of it and as soon as I got home I

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gave it to my mom she took one glance

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and was like boy where your real report

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card at I said mom let me explain she

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said no no I don't want to hear it I

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know what happened say you do she said

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yes you probably lost it how you always

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lose stuff and you went to the office

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and they had to make a copy up there so

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father I said yeah yeah you know mama

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she's like I'm now I'm like you know

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everything she's like I know but at the

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end of that summer at the end of that

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summer well my real report car came in

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it was really rough I'll never forget

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like when I first tricked my mom and she

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saw it she was like I'm so proud of you

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she started crying I haven't got

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emotional I was like girl told you my

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mama make you proud she's hugging me I'm

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hugging her we got like a breakthrough

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and you're probably wondering like

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Jeremy why were you crying like you know

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you didn't really earn all A's and two

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beans well for the first time in a long

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time I didn't feel like a failure

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like I actually felt successful like

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worthy like I felt like I was good

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enough for so I that was a bit of

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emotional moment but it wasn't real

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because I didn't really earn those

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grades now with my school to my River

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Park our home

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my mom saw it she was in denial my baby

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mayonnaise and B so she called to school

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I was like Oh hang up the phone mama

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hang up the phone and again she's in

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tears but now what was once tears of joy

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not was tears of sorrow tears of pain

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tears of frustration and she's trying to

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figure out like I wish my baby would

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just get it together and I was so hurt

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but I felt stuck I was depressed I was

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tired I was struggling I felt like I was

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an accident like what's the purpose of

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life like why am I here you know I felt

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like I wasn't I couldn't fit in when it

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was time to read I didn't want to read

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cuz somebody was gonna tease me because

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I wasn't a good reader we was always

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getting the fights people was bullying

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me then there was a time when I was a

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bully like I just struggling I was like

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what's the point of it all and my mom is

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a great mom so she moved me to another

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school so now I'm at the school now

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called Huntsville hi this is my third

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school for the 9th grade now I'm at this

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new school and I don't know how to

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explain it to you but I got a group of

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teachers I felt like they were weird

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they were saying stuff like Jeremy we

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believe in you I'm like me what teachers

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like oh yeah Jeremy Anderson over top on

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man ah this is gonna be the best year

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ever

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I'm like okay what teacher I had to ask

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myself wait a second y'all are way too

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enthusiastic did y'all get my

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transcripts like y'all got the right

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Jeremy they was like yeah we got the

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right Jeremy but you're in a new season

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now so you don't have to worry about the

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past I was like yeah but you do know

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about lashing yup I said you know those

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two my third school it's like we're not

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worried about that again Jeremy you're

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in a new season now so let's not bring

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all things into a new season and they

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began to speak life to me they begin the

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recurrence me they be get to affirm me

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and because I was young and I was

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immature I kind of felt like well you

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don't really understand my story you

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don't come for a while I come from and I

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try to build the wall up but you know

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we're not that wall down it's love you

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know we're knock that wall down

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it was perseverance you know

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knock that wall down it was like

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unwavering commitment and support and I

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realized you can be black white purple

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blue green we need each other

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and if you're sewing up because you

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believe in me and you see great things

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inside me like maybe just maybe I could

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do great things your mindset your belief

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system is everything and it is so

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powerful and so I came all the way from

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Atlanta Georgia to tell you you are not

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a mistake you are not an accident you

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were here for a reason I know you're

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going through some hard times I know

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life at times might feel rough or you

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might feel weird and things might be

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frustrating but it's not going to always

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be like this your condition it's not

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your conclusion there is so much more

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that's going to take place there is so

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much more power that's inside you if you

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make up in your mind I choose to believe

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that I could do great things and I

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promise you my young friends I got to a

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point in life when I was like man I got

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these teachers they must really care

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like when you start having teachers that

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get diagnosed with cancer but they still

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show up to school one of my teachers had

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arthritis so bad she couldn't even write

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on the chalkboard other teacher was

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going through a divorce another one that

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just buried her child

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I'm looking at all these teachers that's

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going through life just like you just

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like me but they kept showing up so

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something inside my brain said maybe I

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am working something inside me said

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maybe I can't do great things for them

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to jump through all these hoops and go

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out of their way to kind of connect with

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me for them to make these sacrifices

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maybe it is possible for me it's the

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same way with you

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sometimes I go back to like being that

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little boy in the hallway that ever

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heard that teacher tell my mom that I

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wasn't high school material then I have

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to remind myself like no no no no no

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that no that's not true I am that I

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can't do that I can't achieve that

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sometime I have to remind myself what am

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I telling you my life can be hard life

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can be rough but there's something

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special and there's something powerful

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about the human mind and about the human

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spirit and about the human will

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will you tell yourself I won't give up I

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won't surrender I won't quit I'm gonna

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sort of every single day and do the best

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that I can and here's the beautiful

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thing about you is while you're going

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through your process and while you're

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trying to navigate these waters and

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while you're still you know trying to

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tweak some stuff within yourself you

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still got the power to save somebody

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else's life you got the power to speak

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up for others you got the power to be

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the voice of reason for someone who

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might be on the verge of doing something

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they shouldn't do you have the power to

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brighten somebody's day your words are

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powerful your energy is powerful and so

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I don't want you all to think that you

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have to have it all together and

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everything for you has to be perfect and

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in order for you to be a leader no no no

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no you can make an impact you can make a

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difference you can save somebody's life

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right now but you just being

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unapologetically you and you're walking

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in that calling and you speak life and

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you affirm and you in the other snow I

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see you and I with you and I got your

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back

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and you're not by yourself and I will

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hold your hand as you go throughout this

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journey and even though I'm struggling

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by they on behalf of new

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figure this thing out together

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keyword together we're gonna figure this

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thing out together there's something

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beautiful about us having that mindset

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of us being together you know saying not

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black white asian Hispanic not

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Republican Democrat independent not gay

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or straight not like male to female like

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us coming together saying man we are

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human we are healed and I believe that

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there is more that makes us together

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there is more than we have in common

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than we had that's not a common and I

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believe there are differences it what

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makes us both are both amazing our

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differences

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think about that right like there are so

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many amazing things and there are so

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many different amazing personalities and

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there is nobody else on this planet

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exactly like you and so I believe then

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we make a decision that say you know

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what we will come together as a people

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we will come together as a nation we

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will come together as a state we will

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come together as the city we will come

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together as a district we will come

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together as a school we will come

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together as a grade we will come

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together as the class and we will value

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each other we will speak life to one

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another and we will help each other go

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to that next look

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you know what I'm not just a student you

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don't say that just happening mean this

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gray I'm not just here at the school I'm

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here for a reason you don't say you got

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to tell yourself man I feel like I've

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been pushed down in the dirt I feel like

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people have been stopping on me

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I feel like stuff has been raining on me

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but you didn't realize as my young

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friends you was just a seed so you got

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to tell yourself no no no I haven't been

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pushed down on the dirt and I haven't

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been stuffed on I've been planted and

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I've been placing this pot for a reason

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and we are at this arena here to be able

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to have a conversation they say what

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does it look like to go to that next

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level and so I need you want to do the

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same thing when you leave here if you

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feel like you're in a weird place if you

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feel stuck if you feel like you know

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what I feel like I need some help you

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get the help you need that's how you

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show how strong and how bold and how

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powerful you are what's the next app

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that you're going to create you don't

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send some time I wonder like you know I

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said are you gonna come up with a cure

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for Alzheimer's dementia or are you

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going to come up you know saying what

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something that can purify water for

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people across the globe are you going to

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create the next app that can connect us

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are you going to be the next teacher or

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superintendent are you going to be the

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next leader in our community like why

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I'd be wondering sometimes like what are

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the great things that you're going to

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accomplish and there are times when I

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look at what's happening in the world

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and imma be discouraged I've got a

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seven-year-old daughter and a

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one-year-old baby boy sometimes I look

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at the crazy stuff that's happening in

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this world and I'm like man what kind of

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world am i racing my kids in but then

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I'm encouraged because I get to come to

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events like this and I get to look in

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your faces and connect with you and I

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have no doubt that there's great things

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decides you and that you're going to

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experience some amazing things inside

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your life if you make a decision to say

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I'm gonna speak up I'm gonna stand up

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I'm gonna save a life if you tell

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yourself I will be a leader if you tell

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yourself I'm gonna show up every single

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day of my school and I'm gonna go above

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and beyond because there are some kids

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and some different countries and some

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different places that wish they had the

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opportunity to be at my school to have

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floors and lights

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and screens and technology I've been

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some places my young friends where I

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walked in some schools in some different

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countries doing some volunteer work and

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I'm seeing the facilities they're here

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i knows I've met some kids that would

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love to come here and be able to go to a

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school that has a gym or be able to go

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to a school that has a seat or to be

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able to go to school that has desk or to

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be able to go to school where they get

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their own books and there's some of

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y'all tablets and all these extra things

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we are so privileged what do we do with

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this opportunity that we have I want to

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challenge you to make the most of it to

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speak life to love to encourage to wrap

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your arms around those who are

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struggling and you let them know you

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know where you're not in this by

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yourself what we're not going to do is

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we're not gonna quit what we're not

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going to do is we're not gonna surrender

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what we're not going to do is we're

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gonna just you know saying just stay in

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this place we knew that eventually

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things would change like eventually it's

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gonna turn around for my good and we'll

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be stronger from it and we'll be better

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equipped and this will make us better

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people now you can't always control what

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happens to you my friends but you can't

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control how you respond to it

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