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The Voice Out of the Bag | Shaq Payne | TEDxRochester


raise your hand if you have a happy
place that’s cool that’s cool
so I want to take you guys to my happy
place which was a sleeping bag but
before we get to my happy place we have
to go in a time machine back to ten year
old Shack my happy place wasn’t sleeping
bag in a house without power without our
genie from time to time in my sleeping
bag some nights I was hungry cried
however I was able to find solitude and
my safe haven in my mind where I was
able to explore my imagination build
myself and eventually find my voice and
express myself what would life be with
no metaphors well there be questions
disconnected gloom same sound marriage
would be unraveling rhymin would become
a transgression so I would have to learn
to speak violin whipping wah my vocal
cords both from the tenacity of no
metaphors being a tragedy and I would
get caught up strung out on my luck for
there were no metaphors what would I do
would I be I am the I am the I am the
lyrics to the spirit rooted in
Stradivarius branches the sky is my soul
breath is when guide in the wings of
Zephyrus lineage is umbilical to
something I do not know but have felt
feeding my acoustics if there was no
metaphors it would kill me but I would
not be silenced by death or the flatline
lyrics to the spirit root in a
Stradivarius bridges bearing the fruits
of life my manifesto to metal wood
Metatron’s cube the Tree of Life is a
central location heart strong ether is
the central location string theory
it’s each particles ensemble of
expression I am the electrified
conductor sacred geometric
M Apollo’s liar daughter of Hermes
lineage is umbilical to something I do
not know but I have felt feeding my
repeat after me I will have a growth
I can always be better I am NOT a victim
I’m a creator life will not happen to me
I will happen to life thank you um so
when I’m not doing poetry or art related
things I work at a all-male of charter
high school called virtus every day I
had my team do that affirmation and my
point to have them do that is so they
understand that they have a choice in
the things that happen to them they have
a choice in the life that they create
ultimately I try to live and teach and
learn by example and I paint my life as
a canvas and I want to paint this space
for you with my expression I see well
with the rent is free I see you we’re
not robot things I see you were with you
and we I see connectivity positivity no
negativity na na na na in this world all
the things that can be in this world all
the things that can be in this world
it’s about what you make it in this
world it’s about what you make it
Aylin gave up the wealth I’ve been
looking to myself I’ve been loving I’ve
been hugging taking care of someone else
I’ve been dancing I’ve been singing ring
ring my name not be singing I’m famous
won’t accept it that’s perspective this
is not entertainment now I’m in it to
change it for the better for the better
no cheese mozzarella foul plate when
they cut each other
ah I in this world all the things that
can be in this world all the things that
can be in this world it’s about what you
make it
in this world it’s about what you make
it
honey never no never no never no I love
these wonders I love these wonders sani
never no never no never no I love these
things yeah so they never no never no
never no the experience
[Music]
setting never know never know never know
what life brings in this world all the
things that can be in this world all the
things that can be in this world it’s
about what you make it in this world
it’s about what you make it so how will
you paint your community with your
actions thank you [Applause]
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