QUOTE : I am who I say I am,<br />I'm not some fantasy<br />of how you think you think you know<br />or who I ought to be.<br />I am a girl who is growing up <br />in my own sweet time,<br />I am a girl who knows enough<br />to know this life is mine.<br />I am this and I am that and<br />I am everything in-between.<br />I'm a dreamer, I'm a dancer,<br />I'm a part-time drama queen.<br />I'm a worrier, I'm a warrior,<br />I'm a loner and a friend,<br />I'm an outspoken defender<br />of justice to the end.<br />I'm the girl in the mirror <br />who likes the girl she sees,<br />I'm the girl in the gypsy shawl<br />with music in her knees.<br />I'm a singer and a scholar,<br />I'm a girl who has been kissed.<br />I'm a solver of equations<br />wearing bangles on my wrist.<br />I am bigger than i ever knew,<br />I am stronger than before,<br />I am every girl I have ever been,<br />and all that are in store.<br />I am who I say I am.<br />I'm not some fantasy.<br />I am the me I am inside.<br />I am who<br />I chose<br />to be.