And so my life has been guidedAll the love I needed was providedAnd through my mothers sacrifices I saw where her life wentTo give more than birth to me, but life to meAnd this ain’t one of the clichés about black women being strongCause hell if you’re weak, you’re goneBut life courage determined to do more than just surviveAnd too many homes have a missing woman or manWithout the feeling of missing loveMaybe they are homes that are hurtBut they are no real lives that hurt without reachBut not brokenUnless the homes of soldiers – stationed overseasOr lost in battles or brokenUnless the homes of firemen, policemen, construction workers,seamen, railroad men, truckers, pilotsWho lost their lives – but not what their lives stood for...Because men die, men lose, they are lost and they leaveAnd so do women ...I came from what they called a broken homeBut they ever really called it a houseThey would have known how wrong they wereWe were working on our lives and our homesDealing with what we had, not what we didn’t haveMy life has been guided by womenBut because of them – I am the man.God bless you mama – and thank you.
Lyrics by Gil Scott-Heron
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