I am from Oakland
Where people do drugs and get robbed at night
Where you here gunshots and sirens
Where you get shot for hanging out with the wrong people
A place where you can not be yourself without getting judged
but with all this going on
we will all make it out.
Photo by davidsonscott15 
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