I have the Right
~not to justify my existence to the world
~not to keep the races separate within me
~not to be responsible for people's discomfort with my physical ambiguity
~not to justify my ethnic legitimacy
I have the Right
~to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify
~to identify myself differently than how my parents identify me
~to identify myself differently than my sisters and brothers
~to identify myself differently in different situations
I have the Right
~to create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial
~to change my identity over my lifetime -- and more than once
~to have my loyalties and identify with more than one group of people
~to freely choose whom I befriend and love
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