"Nobody gets to choose where they come from. You got dealt a bad hand, it's not your fault. This game was rigged against you, sport, and there wasn't a damn thing you were supposed to be able to do about that."
He lets it sink in for just a second, trying to regain that eye contact, smiling.
"But you did. They thought they were gonna tell you who you were supposed to be, what you were supposed to do, but they miscalculated. They underestimated you, and they paid that balance. Now, I've met people who came from dirt, worked harder than they ever thought they could and came out on top. But kid," he says with a small laugh, "you were conditioned to be nothing more than a tool, something somebody else could use to get what they wanted. And you came out of it your own person. I don't know about you, but nobody can tell me that's nothing."
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"Nobody gets to choose where they come from. You got dealt a bad hand, it's not your fault. This game was rigged against you, sport, and there wasn't a damn thing you were supposed to be able to do about that."
He lets it sink in for just a second, trying to regain that eye contact, smiling.
"But you did. They thought they were gonna tell you who you were supposed to be, what you were supposed to do, but they miscalculated. They underestimated you, and they paid that balance. Now, I've met people who came from dirt, worked harder than they ever thought they could and came out on top. But kid," he says with a small laugh, "you were conditioned to be nothing more than a tool, something somebody else could use to get what they wanted. And you came out of it your own person. I don't know about you, but nobody can tell me that's nothing."