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Everyone has a future and affect the future in different ways depending on their choices, and people should be able to pick what kind of future they want from themselves. For example: in Raymond’s Run the protagonist squeaky’s who lives in Harlem New York has to deal with her parents parents wanting her to dance on her toes, while she has a different hobby and interest which is running. Another example of someone with a rough life that has to deal with people affecting his future is the guy from Believer when they say “Don't you tell me what you think that I can be” Meaning he wants to choose his own future and not let others do it for him.
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Just like you affect your own future other people could also affect your future and either “make you a believer”, or try to make you something that you don’t really want to be like a strawberry. An example of someone affecting someone else’s future is shown where squeaky believes in raymond and starts thinking that one day he can become a runner too. Another example of someone who affects somebody else’s future can be seen where squeaky shows interior thinking of her and her parents.
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“fairy or a flower or whatever you’re supposed to be when you should be trying to be yourself, whatever that is, which is, as far as I am concerned, a poor black girl who really can’t afford to buy shoes and a new dress you only wear once a lifetime cause it won’t fit next year.” Pg.185 - 189
In squeaky’s interior thinking we can see that she believes “you should be trying to be yourself” which is also shown in an important line from the song believer which is
“Don't you tell me what you think that I can be I'm the one at the sail, I'm the master of my sea, oh
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