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Always thank the ones who got you to where you are today. Sent some e-mails out to former teachers.
I may not be known by the world, but that doesn't make me a nobody. We are each a somebody.

I was just sipping my Yogi tea in the living room with sweat pants, hair up, chillin' with no make up on, and watching the new MTV's "World of Jenks." Andrew Jenks, brilliant idea cooker-upper, went into the life of a rapper this episode. He chose Maino, and behind all the partying, girls, and successful lifestyle, his true stories are what keeps him strong and driven. "I've come a long way." We can all say that, at one point in time, sure. But experiencing someone else's life, rather than hearing the stories, is a whole new level of spontaneousness, if you will. You were there. You saw the police pull up. You saw the drug attics and the poverty.You heard it. You felt the chills. You even have stories of your own. And now, you keep on, from "hell and back," and sign on those autographs for those who look up to the true you, and not just the image. If that was a story about just one rapper, imagine everyone else's story. Yet, don't just imagine, think deeply. What would it be like to wake up as them in the morning? That is the question. You're not doing it because you have a body and life of your own. Imagine. Imagine all the people in the world, one stereotype at a time, as all the labels erase after breathing with their lungs and blood pumping with their heart.

Listen to your body.

At the end of the tea bag, my fortune said, "Live in your strength."