Zitat des Tages von Liz Murray:
My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.
I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.
If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.
I guess if there is a big spiritual experience in my life, it is me becoming a mother.
People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply loved.
I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.
When I grew up in the Bronx, we always had everyone telling us, 'Watch out for the system, watch out for child welfare, watch out, they'll get you,' and I grew up with this feeling of, 'Society is over there and they're dangerous and not safe.'
I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.
