<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436349" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hard For Them to Believe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was asked, <br>At a time...<br>If I knew what I was doing? <br>As if my thoughts, <br>Could not produce my deeds.<br>As if my efforts, <br>Did not match where I lived.<br>Since I was born and lived in the ghetto.<br>And I should not be aware or know, <br>Of those things I did! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As If my blackness was for them limited! <br>Like it was for friends I had, <br>And some relatives.<br>All believing then I was trying to be white...<br>And not the black neighborhood kid! <br>Who did for me, <br>What I knew was right! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They believed I should be, <br>That kind to clown and be down to Earth.<br>And not have a mind as creative as mine! <br>With dreams to fulfill...<br>That broke down barriars and walls, <br>Others believed I existed behind! <br>And not to know my own value or worth.<br>Or reach for heights...<br>Few I knew took effort to climb! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was asked, <br>At a time...<br>If I knew what I was doing? <br>I am not asked 'that' question anymore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today, <br>Some try to downplay...<br>My affect! <br>But I had always known, <br>To be grateful to be blessed.<br>And let God handle the rest! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was asked, <br>At a time...<br>If I knew what I was doing? <br>Of course I knew.<br>From the very beginning.<br>But the few who did not know...<br>Now they do too! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And nothing has changed...<br>From where I live, <br>To what I do.<br>And that is a fact...<br>Hard for them to believe! <br>That I can say who I am. <br>Be who I am.<br>Stay where I am and know it! <br>AND achieve!</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=436349" data-title="Hard For Them to Believe de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I was asked, At a time... If I knew what I was doing? As if my thoughts, Could not produce my deeds. As if my efforts, Did not match where I lived. Since I was born and lived in the ghetto. And I should not be aware or know, Of those things I..."></div> </div> </div>

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