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Taneshia

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

3 poems·Since August 2013
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Refusal to be Stereotyped

August 12, 2013

 

I refuse to let the world teach me that it is Mean and Cruel place. I refuse to be looked to people as just a source of entertainment. I refuse to be seen as just another statistic. I refuse to be seen as a future inmate. I refuse to be seen as ignorant, illiterate, and insignificant. I'm not person to look to when its time to twerk something, I'm not the person to look to when its time to sing, I am just a person with intellect. I am person with respect. I am above the stereotype. I refuse to be withheld, stereotype, I refuse

         

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