People can enslave us, and we can enslave ourselves. I believe I am the choices I make. Every day, I resolve to renew myself. To choose my own life. Make my own decisions. Seek the light, color and love in the world. Support my friends, and accept the gift of friendship. To renounce fear and the people who would profit from it. This is, for me, emancipation, and like all emancipation it is precious, hard-won and in constant need of affirmation and renewal.