In plain words
You can be lots of things at once. You're bigger than one label.
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Primary text, confirmed verbatim via Wikisource archive of Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself' section 51 (1891-92 deathbed edition).
- Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself' (section 51)
- 1892 · New York, USA · From Whitman's long poem about the many-sided self
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