<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436293" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Growing Up In the Projects</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You want to know what it's like, <br>To grow up in the projects? <br>Being different and taking risks? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Can't be that bad! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Follow me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Where are we going? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up to the roof.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'To the roof? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yeah.<br>I want to show you something from my point of view.<br>Now...<br>Turnaround.<br>Put your hands behind your back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Why? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm going to tie your hands behind your back.<br>Then I'm going to blindfold you before I leave you alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But...<br>I might fall off the roof.<br>Aren't you concerned about that? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'll learn to adjust.<br>If you want to survive.<br>And...<br>If you can not get up from a fall? <br>Maybe you were too blind not to pay attention.<br>Some steps some folks shouldn't take.<br>Listening and observation is key.<br>Common sense is precious.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You be surprise how many lessons one learns, <br>Growing up in the projects.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But my hands are tied.<br>And I can't see.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I use to hear that all the time! <br>~Boy! Can't you see my hands are tied? <br>I can't see where the next dime is coming from.<br>And all I get from you is lip! ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Note: <br>Not too many folks I knew who grew up<br>in the projects became victims from the experience.<br>In fact, most of the folks became very successful people.<br>But...that was a time when expectations were high.<br>And many years ago when folks chose to have 'some' identity<br>and dignity connected to the 'self' and a growth process.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436293" data-title="Growing Up In the Projects de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="You want to know what it's like, To grow up in the projects? Being different and taking risks? 'Can't be that bad! ' Follow me. 'Where are we going? ' Up to the roof. 'To the roof? ' Yeah. I want to show you something from my point of vie..."></div> </div> </div>

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