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Foreign [Music] You have cancer Those three words you have cancer three Of the most feared words in seven Different languages I saw it as a fight Frederick Douglass said we might not get Everything that we fight for but Everything we get it will be a fight and I love the quote that life is a fight For territory and once you stop fighting For what you want what you don't want Will automatically take over I never was fearful that I was going to Die from it and and I think that I read Something by Dr Norman Cousins he wrote A book called the biology of Hope and he Talked about the fact that when Something happens to you you don't deny It you defy it and I was defiant that I'm going to beat this I'm going to Handle this that there are people who Many times when something happens to Them that they embrace it from a place Of fear and it takes them out and Elsie Robinson said things may happen to you And things that happen around you but The most important things are the things That happen in you and you have to stand Up inside yourself and deal with it and Handle it The most difficult thing I've ever done Was to believe that I can do it when you Don't know what's impacting you and it's
It's something that that's holding you Down and you're not aware of it When you live in a dominant culture that Is designed to destroy your sense of Self and your belief in yourself and and You have to learn ways in which you can Begin to connect with this power that You have within yourself to handle where You are the key is to be constantly in a Perpetual process of discovering the Truth of who you are and fighting Constantly to look for ways in which you Can escape the inner conversation Because how people live their lives as a Result of the story they believe about Themselves because life is going to beat Up on you in so many ways and many Things they come back you know negative Thoughts and and how you feel about Yourself they don't die they they come Back once you stop doing the maintenance Work on your mind listening to Motivational messages going to seminars And workshops spending time quietly Listening to this still Small Voice Within who am I really is this really me Am I giving my best am I just reflecting What's around me because all of these Various things affect how we show up in Life and so having a strategy to Continuously find ourselves reaching Higher of Robert Schuler had a book is Not very popular but I loved it it's Called Peak to Peak you p-e-a-k to
P-e-e-k because you're constantly Reaching higher to find out and discover Your your better self There's a real you know that Richard Wright said it best he said the impulse To dream Has slowly been beaten out of me through The experiences of life so when you live In a culture that is designed to destroy Your sense of self to where you are Marginalized where you you have a Feeling of being hopeless and Powerless And you're terrorized I remember going Downtown with my mother and I saw a water fountain I think I was About five years old and I ran and I Drank from the water fountain all of a Sudden She grabbed me by the neck and said Don't you ever do that again and start Punching me in the back of my head and My face and and got me down on ground Was punching me relentlessly not Relentlessly and I said Mama please it's Me Mama it's me with this crazed look in Her eyes and then a white policeman came And he had a night stick in his hand he Was hitting it in his left hand he said Okay All right you beat that little boy Enough now I won't have to beat him with This night stick and he walked away Laughing and my mother broke down and Started crying and saying Leslie I'm so
Sorry I'm so sorry I said Mama why'd you Beat me like that she said there's water Fountains are for white only sir And if that cop had hit me with his Nightstick he would have to kill me I'd Have fought him till he killed me and I Left you and your brothers and sisters By themselves to raise themselves I'm so Sorry Foreign Ages zero and five we determine what's Available to us and what's not available To us and so that was a defining moment I knew there are certain things that I Could not do certain places I could not Go they used to have signs on Miami Beach that said Jews dogs and cullets Not allowed and so now you have to Operate within the constraints of the Dominant society and the things that They've created for you and it's a Challenge to see yourself beyond that And to work to get outside of that even After those laws have changed because That has become so much a part of you You unconsciously operate within the Parameters of what has been put in place Like you go you're driving on the Expressway the four or five and you'll Get off on an exit that you weren't Going in that direction but you're Consciously did it because you've done It so many times that many people Because they're not making a conscious
Deliberate determined effort to think Outside of what life has thrown at them They end up doing the same thing over And over and over again Einstein said That thinking that has brought me this Far has created some problems that this Thinking can't solve and so through Relationships through reading through Studies through goals and dreams beyond Your comfort zone it allows you to begin To live out of your imagination as Opposed to out of your history Disney Said the imagination is a preview of What's to come and so as a kid I I Dreamed a lot about taking care of my Mother I used to go with her to work to Clean homes and I used to look at these Big beautiful mansions and said Mama What is it Leslie when I become a man I'm gonna buy you a big beautiful home Just like this Oh you don't have to do this I said I Know but you didn't have to adopt us Either and you did and so I'm here with You because the two women one gave me Life the other one gave me love God took Me out of my biological mother's womb And placed in the heart of my adopted Mother and because of her example and my Love for her and the passion and that I Felt in my heart I've got to do Something to to make her proud I've got To do something to put myself in Position to be able to take care of her
That drove me Dimitri said if you know The wife of living you can endure almost Anyhow Foreign [Music]
