Good evening, My name is Realitee…I’m the new truth in town. Many people, quite like you here is this space, have for so long been my inspiration, my growing motivation and my sweet source of inspiration. Candy isn’t made of cotton, string cheese isn’t made of string, ice cubes aren’t always square and clouds don’t really have a lining. Getting to this point of expressing myself to you has been very hard work. There were times…I wanted to cry and I could not scream, I wanted to close my eyes but was too scared to dream, I wanted to keep on crawling then was told to get up and walk, now they telling me to be quiet…well I won’t…I’m gonna talk. I’m gonna spill my heart on every line on every page, I’m gonna tell my stories, whatever it may be, in living rooms, libraries, at bookstores and on stage. I refuse to be quieted till the Lord tires my tongue, I’m gonna be a bell in the crowd and I’m gonna be rung. If the songs I write or sing be on or off key, my teeth and tongue may cease to move, even that won’t silence me. We must search for our history that has for so long been considered a mystery, that’s cause some people want us to believe that people of color somehow sprouted up out of a cabbage-patch and landed with open-hands reaching outward in the midst of a cotton field. I am a descendant of Abraham. Like Abraham and the many others between He and I, we follow Gods directions, moving from one place to another…teaching, writing, preaching, being liked or loved, pushed, shuned and shoved and guess what? This Realitee of my truth is…if I think I cannot…then..I won’t, If I believe I am able to…I can and will, no matter what restraints or restrictions my body may endure, my soul is my own free land and I hope you find yours. God even respects my freedom to serve whomever I please. Jesus won the battle on my behalf, freedom is my birthrite, therefore…no president can set me free, my arms will only reach as far as I stretch them, my feet will only take me as far as I intend to walk, so…I must remember and share with you, those times…I wanted to cry and I could not scream, I wanted to close my eyes but was scared to dream, those times when I wanted to keep crawling, then was obedient when told to get up and walk…so you’ll understand me when they tell me to be quiet…and I won’t…I’m gonna talk.
”The truth never changes, a lie never stays the same…REalitee is what you have to deal with.”
