Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didnt want to be either one.

War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.

Life is a right, not collateral or casual.