Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being ‘different’ will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.
That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been.
So Am I’ is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in – just celebrating what really makes you different.
I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw ‘Wicked,’ it made me feel really cool for being different… and you can carve that in stone!
I think that the shame of being different is very painful for a lot of people.
There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way.
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