<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440568" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Only Then to Find Myself</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I made a decision<br>To use the name I was blessed with<br>Adding a second name that meant exactly<br>What my first name means in a different dialect...<br>Folks got upset.<br>Because I wanted to perfect my identity! <br>Lawrence S. I was going to be! <br>People could not pronounce 'Suhuba'.<br>Thinking it was something like scuba diving.<br>And when I told them the name was Yoruban.<br>From true Egyptian/Yoruba tradition...<br>You would have thought those of colonial understandings, <br>Had thought I lost my ancestral mind! <br>I've known who I've been all this time! <br>I am defined and proud, <br>To announce my heritage out loud.<br>Originality? <br>Being free of subservience, <br>I imagine that is what is seen in me.<br>I have an integrity with dignity.<br>And could care less who is lost in distress.<br>I was there...<br>Before I awakened, <br>To remove someone else's brand! <br>Only then to find myself...<br>Disrespected by my own kind, <br>Whose minds had been completely brainwashed! <br>And free to think of themselves as insignificant.</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=440568" data-title="Only Then to Find Myself de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="When I made a decision To use the name I was blessed with Adding a second name that meant exactly What my first name means in a different dialect... Folks got upset. Because I wanted to perfect my identity! Lawrence S. I was going to be! People ..."></div> </div> </div>

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