<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442509" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Some Obstacles Are Planted By Those Who Test</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">...and the fact is this...<br>I am not one on a mission, <br>To prove to those who witness...<br>I am here to exist.<br>Nor do I hesitate to debate a foolishness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first thing most would come to think, <br>When I take opportunities...<br>To declare I am black, <br>Is someone prepared to defend that fact! <br>Or feel I must attack because I am labelled that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Listen...<br>The color of one's skin, <br>Has little to do with the mind within them.<br>And I will not allow a scrimmage, <br>To scuffle with in set defined limits.<br>Or restrict my life, <br>To choose what I do because it is liked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although I will admit, <br>Some obstacles are planted by those who test...<br>With a purpose to discourage my ambitiousness.<br>And I've learned not to get upset, <br>By those representing that kind of ignorance left.<br>Either at my door to greet.<br>Or laid before my placed footsteps!</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=442509" data-title="Some Obstacles Are Planted By Those Who Test de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="...and the fact is this... I am not one on a mission, To prove to those who witness... I am here to exist. Nor do I hesitate to debate a foolishness. The first thing most would come to think, When I take opportunities... To declare I am black, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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