Lyrics Born talks about changing his name from Asian Born because of his unwillingness to be categorized as "that Asian rapper" and wanting to be known for his merit, not his place of birth. For my prompt I'd like you to write about where you were "born" in a sense of where you come from, not in a geographic sense but as in what people/places/things shape you, beyond the location you were born.
Consider this quote:“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Feel free to start with "I was born in/with/on/where..." "I am born when..."
-Shalin
Consider this quote:“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Feel free to start with "I was born in/with/on/where..." "I am born when..."
-Shalin