And so my life has been guided 所以我的生活一直引导

All the love I needed was provided 所有我需要的爱情提供了

And through my mothers sacrifices I saw where her life went 通过我母亲的牺牲，我看到，她的生活就

To give more than birth to me, but life to me 为了让更多的比生我，但生活对我来说

And this ain’t one of the clichés about black women being strong 这是不是黑人妇女被强的陈词滥调之一

Cause hell if you’re weak, you’re gone 因为地狱，如果你是弱者，你就完了

But life courage determined to do more than just survive 但生活的勇气决心要做的不仅仅是生存

And too many homes have a missing woman or man 和太多的家庭有一个失踪的女人或男人

Without the feeling of missing love 无缺爱的感觉

Maybe they are homes that are hurt 也许他们是被伤害的家园

But they are no real lives that hurt without reach 但他们是没有伤害没有达到真正的生活

But not broken 但是不破

Unless the homes of soldiers  Estationed overseas 除非士兵海外Estationed家

Or lost in battles or broken 或迷失在战斗或损坏

Unless the homes of firemen, policemen, construction workers, 除非消防员，警察，建筑工人的家庭，

seamen, railroad men, truckers, pilots 海员，铁路的人，卡车司机，飞行员

Who lost their lives  Ebut not what their lives stood for... 谁失去了生命Ebut不是他们的生活主张......

Because men die, men lose, they are lost and they leave 因为男人死了，男人输了，他们输了，他们离开

And so do women ... 所以，做女人...

I came from what they called "a broken home" 我从他们所谓的“一个破碎的家庭”

But they ever really called it "a house" 但是，他们曾经真的把它称为“房子”

They would have known how wrong they were 他们会知道怎么错了，他们

We were working on our lives and our homes 我们正在努力对我们的生活和我们的家园

Dealing with what we had, not what we didn’t have 与我们有什么交易，并不是我们没有

My life has been guided by women 我的生活一直遵循的女人

But because of them  EI am the man. 但由于他们的EI是男人。

God bless you mama  Eand thank you. 愿上帝保佑你妈妈及改制谢谢。