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Movement | Jewel Rodgers | TEDxNebraskaCorrectionalCenterforWomen


I want to let everybody in this room
know how massive you are how profound
your existence is just the fact that you
breathe and you’re here and you didn’t
necessarily ask to be existing but you
are and that is a miracle so just for
the record your magnitude is just
indescribable and don’t allow a
circumstance to hinder how you perceive
yourself worth don’t allow a
circumstance to position you in a place
where you can’t even see the worth and
others and know that your value is just
is something that can’t even truly be
described by the human language is
I’ve been growing with the changes say
that it’s the craziest thing I would be
this honest with everyone I think earth
is looking out for me
Perret don’t feel no rain you see I’ll
shine is colors for everyone and this
must be what fear feels alike when you
shape it when you molded this must be
what fear feels like when you love this
must be what fear feels alike when you
shape it when you mold it this must be
what fear feels alike when you love this
fear sometimes make you forget that most
things are a matter of perception
even the muddied clouds hold the Sun
beneath its breath and when I find
myself in the cracks of what I thought
was helper has this smoke from flames
was really wind beneath my wings
teaching me to fly in hard times I can’t
lie the air is thin up here get
lightheaded from all them visions they
pessimistically called dreams and most
times I will correct them because dreams
are things you wake up from and this is
not something to wake up from rather
wake up to rather wake people up to the
fact that pipe dream has become
synonymous with fair treatment pipe
dream has become you must be crazy to
think you should develop your mind and
your spirit I guess the city was much
larger than I anticipated sleeping giant
they said the cage was cozy around here
most times modern genocide is usually
inflicted by the things would become
complacent within our daily lives
has no one told you that revolution was
never meant to be inflicted on the
masses rather introspection and
reassessment of how powerful you all
when the public is not present what if I
told you that it only took your limbs to
move
these mountains so we are thinking the
same things just too afraid to speak it
out and what if I told you that freedom
had been stuck in your throat for
centuries choking on the truth but
readily swallowing the lies that this is
all there has got to be don’t you know
that you write this story – your blood
is on these pages your history is in
this DNA don’t allow yourself to be
fooled into thinking you’re not capable
of the courage they write about it in
fairy tales most things that are said to
be unreal are usually the closest we
could ever get to the truth so don’t let
so doubt lock you inside of the asylum
of your own mind have you hand making
your own chains for your own wrists on
your own time feeding yourself delusion
with your own dying darling teach
yourself that to love yourself is the
freedom to know the value of the living
is the real revolution and when you find
that there is truth in that courage wrap
your limbs in it throw roses in the neck
of the guns
show them what fear looks like when you
finally have the courage to call it love
because I’ve been growing with the
changes say that it’s the craziest thing
I would be this honest with everyone and
I think earth is looking out for me
Perret don’t feel no way you see I’ll
shine these colors for everyone and this
must be what fear feels alike when you
shape it when you mold it this must be
what fear feels alike when you love this
must be what fear feels the like when
you shape it when you molded this must
be what fear feels alike when you love
this [Music]
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