QUOTE : I Am Primate<br /><br />I was once taught, that I am a soul in a body.<br />I once believed I was separate from the earth.<br />A stranger in a strange land,<br />a sinner in need of a Savior.<br />But, isn't this my home? This beautiful world?<br />Isn't this my form?<br />These hands, these eyes, this touch?<br />Am I to believe I have violated a rule,<br />just by being born?<br />Who claims this right to judge,<br />and on what authority do you stand?<br />The truth screams out from my cells.<br />I am not the imagination of a God,<br />I am a voice in the earth,<br />I am that which you deny!<br />The earth is my home and the stars my destiny.<br />I will touch the planets through<br />the hands of my children<br />. . . not the will of your ghost!<br />I am a voice in the evolutionary continuum<br />and I claim the right to be alive,<br />without your story.<br />For I Am Human, I Am Proud,<br />and I AM . . . PRIMATE!