I exist as I am, that is ...

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
In the faces of men and women, I see God.
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.