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We cannot say really that we can choose our place of birth!
Let me speak! My country in the past haven of peace, truth,
light, knowledge, reconciliation. The darkness of discrimination, ignorance
has dispelled this peace, this truth, this light, this knowledge, this reconciliation.
Let me speak! I was born in a country, a period, a context
I remember bursts of laughter, songs, of my sisters in the in the moon light.
I do not remember my sisters huddled up on themselves.
At the back of the hut, the empty face without expression,
I remember my sister's bare-chested, ***, intact running under the sun, laughing, the
feet in the hot sand. I do not remember my sisters *** from head
to toe, ***, soiled, baddled. Asking themselves, what kind of mistake had
they done in order to be condemned to such kind of hatred, violence, oppression?
It is really the worst sadness not to know why without love,
Without hatred, our hearts have such sadness When I see, nothing has changed but everything
is different Let me speak!
A BLACK President! Martin Luther King's dream I understood in the history of Mande, during,
the Kourounkanfougan. Three things: love, equality, fraternity.
Which means: no ethnic, nor racial discrimination I understood that any human life, is a life,
that it is true that a life appears to the existence before another life but a live is
not older, not more respectable than another life.
We think that they do not love us! May be it is not totally false.
In my heart we are all a bit brother Why don't we say brother hand in hand
Now in order to maintain a peaceful balance, fit to live in.
I have a dream, in my, dream I wander in the streets of my country with no fear.
I my dream, I rest under my canvas with no fear with my uncle from Kidal, my cousin from
Sikasso. Let me speak!
I do not have hatred, grudge, but nostalgia Nostalgia for a future which present is built
today For my humbled brothers, deprived of all rights,
I take my pen, I sit down and then I write I surprise you, I amuse you, I disappoint
you You thought that I was going to take arms
to fight My passivity has more strength than a strong
army of assailant. Let me speak!
I keep my good mood I smile; I smile to my life, to our lives
I want to believe to a wonderful world.