I am at a different level

Some prefer to take the elevator

While I prefer the stairs

Not because I'm health conscious

And plan on living a thousand years

But rather because I understand that there

Are a million ways to get to the same place

I come from a different mindset that even

Before Beyoncé told the world that women ran it I knew it to be true. I am a seventeen year old who had seen her mother work her behind off from day one. That doesn't make me inferior but rather I say superior because I was capable of being able to know that life doesn't give you everything. I am knowledgeable not because I have read the dictionary cover to cover but rather because I have danced to the wisdom passed on to me by my great grandmother. I am a leader in every space that I walk through I stand tall and believe I have a dream similar to Martin Luther King Jr.

I see a world where education can be valued and that your teachers are there to guide you not to be an enemy. I see where society will stop believing that black

on black crimes end with a two piece in the glove department.

I am trying to get the next level some call it the X level like Malcom X the one who in my mind had the golden ticket to success

I am everything society doesn't want me to be