[Spoken Word: Stevie Wonder]
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Hey, this is Stevie
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I was blessed to be raised in the west side of Detroit
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I lived on Breckenridge, that was the first home that we lived in
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My neighborhood, where I was raised up
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When the girls came around, I would sing
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On the front porch, beating on the stairs and singing
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For hours and hours upon hours
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Seeing a piano for the first time
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But the amazing thing as well is
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Through those experiences, I was able to understand how
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My being blind because my mother allowed me to be free
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Didnt mean that I had to be blind to the world
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I may have had a visual disability
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But did not stop my vision inside me
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I didnt know what it was like being poor
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Because God had made me rich
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Even before I was born
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Rich with the spirit of knowing that
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Anything you imagine thats for the good is possible to be a reality
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Because a few weeks before I was discovered, I-
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I had a dream that I heard my music, my record on the radio
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I had nothing out, no one knew who I was, and, um
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Amazing, it really happened
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And so you know, its just, its…
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I- I- I can say to other young people as I said to my son Kailand
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I said, “Listen, what you dont understand
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Is that God gave you a brand even before you were born
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All you had to do in life is walk into it.”
