It allowed me to leave the island and build myself separate from the long-long shadow of my twin.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

My teacher is so near to me that I do not think of myself as apart from her.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

"Then I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

And I seemed to myself a big boned boy from the South, a country boy after all.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

We leave you now with more words from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

I moved away from him and prepared to defend myself as best I could.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

Listen to these lines from "Song of Myself": And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

I bent my head backward to drink in the stars, and clearly I heard a song so sweet and pure I had to hold myself to keep from breaking.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

So I am keeping myself safe from AIDS'. It is not absolutely true,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.29