From NPR news, this is weekend edition. I'm Liane Hann.
I believe in mystery.
I believe in family.
I believe in being who I am.
I believe in the power of failure.
And I believe normal life is extraordinary.
This I Believe.
For our ries This I Believe, we hear today from Michael Oatman. He pened this essay for a writing class in Cleveland. Oatman is one cour away from a Master's of Fine Arts. Ten years ago, a master's degree would have emed out of the question for Michael Oatman and anyone who knew him. Here's ries curator independent producer Jay Allison.
Michale Oatman told us that until recently he worked at jobs he didn't like and wasn't good
英文简历模版at, like pumping jet fuel, or as he called it, a glorified bouncer at treatment centres. Oatman describes himlf as quote, menacing, 320 pounds, dreadlocks and the shoulders of a line backer. But it was in the aftermath of writing a poem that he came to his belief, as you will hear in his essay for This I Believe.
I believe that education has the power to transform a person's life. For me, education was the rabbit hole through which I escaped the underclass. I squeezed my 300-pound frame through that hole expecting others to follow, and instead I find mylf in a strange new land, mostly alone, and wondering at this new life. For instance, the days for me, dramatic plays at local arts centers have replaced strip pole dancing at the local sleaze huts. I haven't fondled a stripper in years becau now I e the stripper through eyes informed by feminist theory. It's hard to get excited when you're pondering issues of exploitation.
I still wonder what happened to that happy-go-lucky mi-thug that ud to hang out with
drug dealers on dimly-lit street corners. Well, I'm in the library parsing a Jane Austen novel looking for dramatic irony, while many of my old friends are dead or in jail. I was lucky becau I didn't get caught or killed doing something stupid. When I was on the streets, I never felt I was good at anything, but I wrote this poem about a girl who didn't care about me, and it got published. I knew nothing about grammar or syntax, so I went back to school to learn that stuff, and one thing led to another.
It's odd to educate onelf away from one's past. As an African-American male, I now find mylf in a foreign world. Like steam off of a concrete sidewalk, I can feel my street cred evaporating away, but I don't fight it anymore. Letting go of the survival tools I needed on the street was a necessary transaction for admittance to a better life.
I am still fighting, but in different ways. I've learned the benefit of rearch and reading, of debate and listening. My new battlefields are affirmative action, illegal immigration and institutional racism.
I believe I am the living embodiment of the power of education to change a man. One day soon, a crop of fresh-faced college students will call me professor. I may even be the only black face in the room, the only reprentative of the underclass. I may feel the slight sting of isolation, but I'll fight it off becau I believe in the changes that my education has allowed me to make.
Michael Oatman with his essay for This I Believe. Last month, Oatman told us he ran into the girl he wrote the poem about, and he thanked her. And twenty minutes before we recorded this essay, he got a new job, teaching playwriting to young people at risk.
We invite everyone to write for our ries. You can find out all about it at npr/thisibelieve or call toll-free 888-577-9977. For This I Believe, I'm Jay Allison.
Next week for the monthly online edition of This I Believe, an essay for Father's Day, it co
mes from listener Chris Huntington who teaches in a man's prison in Indiana and believes in adoption.
This I Believe is independently produced by Jay Allison, Dan Gediman, John Gregory and Viki Merrick.
Support for This I Believe comes from Prudential Retirement.
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street cred---Acceptability or popularity, especially among young people in urban areas
卤猪耳朵需要多长时间从全国公共广播电台的消息，这是周末版。我莱恩汉森。
水印图片制作我相信神秘。
我相信家庭。
我愿意做我是谁。
我相信失败的力量。
而且我相信正常的生活是很了不起的。
这点我相信。砂锅焗鱼头
对于我们的系列，这点我相信，我们今天听到从迈克尔奥特曼。他pened在克利夫兰这个写作班的文章。奥特曼是一个课程远离艺术硕士的。十年前，硕士学位也显得出于对迈克尔奥特曼的问题，谁知道他。这里的独立制片人系列馆长杰伊阿利森。
Michale奥特曼告诉我们，直到最近他在工作，他不喜欢的工作，是不是，好样的抽水喷气燃料，或者像他这样称呼的，在治疗中心的荣耀保镖。奥特曼形容报价，来势汹汹，320磅，辫子线的支持者和他自己的肩膀上。但它是在写一首诗后，他来到了他的信念，你会听到他的这点我是相信的文章。
古筝教师
我相信教育有能力改变一个人的生命。对我来说，教育是兔子洞，我逃过了下层阶级。我轻轻地握了握通过该孔期望别人跟着我的300磅重的框架，而是我觉得在一个陌生的国度我自己，多半单独行动，在这个新的生命疑惑。例如，对于我的这些天里，在中心的地方
戏剧艺术的戏剧在当地已经取代了肮脏的小屋条钢管舞。我没有抚摸一个脱衣舞娘，因为现在在几年我看到通过眼睛的女性主义理论告诉脱衣舞。这很难，当你感到兴奋的剥削问题的思考。
我仍然不知道发生了什么事该慵半暴徒，用来挂在昏暗的光线充足的街头毒贩了。嗯，我在解析简奥斯汀的小说戏剧性的讽刺来看，图书馆而很多老朋友已经死亡或坐牢。我很幸运，因为我没有被抓到或杀死做一些愚蠢的。当我在街上的时候，我从来不觉得我是在什么好东西，但是我写了关于一个女孩谁不关心我的诗，并得到了出版。我也不知道，语法或语法的事，所以我又回到学校学习的东西，一方面导致了另一个。
这是一个奇怪的教育从过去的自己了。作为一个非洲裔男性，我现在觉得自己在国外的世界。像蒸汽具体人行道的时候，我能感觉到我的街头威望蒸发了，但我不打它了。放手的生存工具，我在街上需要的是一个应考更美好生活的必要的处理。
我仍然在战斗，但以不同的方式。我已经学会了研究和阅读的辩论和听，效益。我的新战
场是肯定的行动，非法移民和种族主义制度。
我相信我是教育的力量来改变一个人生活的体现。不久的一天，一个新鲜面孔大学生作物会叫我教授。我可能甚至是唯一的黑着脸在房间里，对下层社会的唯一代表。我可能会感到轻微的刺痛隔离，但我会打它了，因为我相信我的变化教育也使我作出。
微信批量加好友迈克尔奥特曼与他的这点我是相信的文章。上个月，奥特曼告诉我们，他跑进了女孩，他写的诗的，他感谢她。而20分钟前，我们记录这篇文章中，他找到一份新工作，教学编剧向边缘青少年。
我们邀请大家来写我们的系列。你可以找到在npr / thisibelieve或拨打免费电话888-577-9977有关它的一切。为此，我相信，我是周杰伦阿利森。
下周的每月这点我相信，一个父亲节的文章的网络版，它来自听众克里斯亨廷顿谁教在一个男人的印第安纳州监狱和采纳认为。
我相信这是由独立制作周杰伦阿利森，丹Gediman，约翰格雷戈里和Viki李贺雁门太守行梅里克。
为了这个，我相信支持来自英国保诚退休。
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街头威望---可接受性，大受欢迎，尤其是在城市地区的年轻人
