Transcendentalists believed that one must have a huge amount of confidence in their choices, ideas, and beliefs to go out and truly live the life they believe is right. In a excerpt from Walden, Thoreau says "Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights." (Thoreau, Conclusion. 275-278) Thoreau is saying that even in the darkest times you need to be confident in the fact that you can still make something of yourself and not simply give up, the contrast between your high times and your low times only makes the bright times seem brighter. Lupe Fiasco urged his listeners to become individuals and to always believe you can make it out no matter what your circumstance is. "No matter what you see when you look out your window, brown grass or green grass, picket fence or barbed wire, never ever put them down, you just lift your arms higher." (Fiasco, youtube.) Fiasco is saying that no matter what your financial or political status is, you can go out and be what you want. Thoreau also believes this; "However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names" (Thoreau, Conclusion. 250-251) Both of them emphasized on the fact that the cards you have been dealt mean nothing when it comes to who you want to be, that in itself shows that you need to have an amazing amount of confidence.
"Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On" Youtube, n.p, n.d., December 23, 2010
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