Dreams
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It's a cuff key to a prisoner's
dreams.
I document
dreams.
What I find so exciting is the ability to make people's
dreams
of being someone else a reality.
Having seen how our
dreams
of democracy and how our
dreams
of coexistence were crushed in Turkey, both gradually but also with a bewildering speed, over the years I've felt quite demoralized.
She only wanted me to understand that my
dreams
might be too big for a girl in my village.
Six months of schooling, now she's a happy sixth grader who
dreams
of becoming a pilot someday, and her family now supports her, and best of all, her younger sisters will follow in her footsteps.
Today my
dreams
are informed by what I learned from them and what I've learned from you.
So I make a new promise to you, my elders, my sisters and my friends, that I am going to keep dreaming and keep going until girls like Linet and Faith achieve their
dreams
and I see mine: that all communities give every single woman and every single girl their
dreams
come true.
For my aunt, my grandfather, my father, we always held two funerals: one for their bodies, but, years before that, one for their
dreams.
Some of my biggest
dreams
are nightmares.
Even as a child, it seemed, Lincoln dreamed heroic
dreams.
But even in his wildest dreams, Lincoln could never have imagined how far his reputation would reach.
People still told stories about getting to the Moon, but they relied on the old ideas or, once again, on
dreams
or on magic.
Now, I don't know if Troy's
dreams
came true.
He disappeared from the program for troubled youth that he was involved in and slipped through the cracks, but on that day that we spoke, I could tell that more than anything, Troy was happy that someone listened to his
dreams
and asked him about his future.
So I think about Troy and his optimism when I think of the reality that so many young, black millennials face when it comes to realizing their
dreams.
I think about all the challenges that so many black millennials have to endure in a world that tells them they can anything they want to be if they work hard, but actually doesn't sit down to listen to their
dreams
or hear stories about their struggle.
So, for this girl to have these
dreams
is simply how we preserve a sense of what home is.
When I was about 21, an astrologer told me that I was going to meet the man of my dreams, and that his name was going to be Eric, right?
"I saw a TV preacher when I was scared, at four or five about bad
dreams
who promised he'd say a prayer if I put my hand to the TV.
And I remember really this desire to talk about Africa as a place where we lived and people live and go about their lives, and have
dreams
like we all have.
To do that, I gave shape to concepts and ideas that already exist in our imagination: the idea of dreams, of chaos, the concept of wonder.
And in an ironic twist of fate, when I finally did get a role that would make all my
dreams
come true, it was a role that required me to be exactly who I was.
I am just one of millions of people who have been told that in order to fulfill my dreams, in order to contribute my talents to the world I have to resist the truth of who I am.
If I could go back and say anything to that nine-year-old, dancing in the den, dreaming her dreams, I would say, my identity is not my obstacle.
The name of the book on that coffee table was "I Dream A World," and today I dream a world where revolutionary confidence helps bring about our most ambitious
dreams
into reality.
That's why it was so important that my classroom be a place where my students could build the muscle of confidence, where they could learn to face each day with the confidence you need to redesign the world in the image of your own
dreams.
For some of us, confidence is a revolutionary choice, and it would be our greatest shame to see our best ideas go unrealized and our brightest
dreams
go unreached all because we lacked the engine of confidence.
I had gotten the first job I applied for in academia, land of a thousand crushed
dreams.
I was entering a world of people just like me, people stumbling around in the debris of
dreams
they thought they were entitled to and plans they didn't realize they had made.
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