And when they do, I'm in the queue.

Sometimes I can stand before the world and when I say this, transformation is a difficult and slow process sometimes I can stand before the world and say, My name is Chris Abani.

Ladies and gentlemen, I do not stand here today to tell you about the glory of weapons.

As I stand here today talking to you guys, I've been running for the grand sum of five years.

I will not side with you or dance to bombs because everyone is dancing.

So, this is what SRISTI is saying Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.

I can feel proud. I can stand here in front of you tonight and say I was courageous.

Alisa was very generously in the process of giving birth to our first child and I was there with a catcher's mitt.

And I'm just standing there, watching this scene with a complete disbelief, not knowing what to do.

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

So what that meant was, when I went down to Fort Dix, I had to hop out in front of 180 guys and tell them of my vision.

Moses said to Joshua, Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand.

And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink. Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

My mom took a drink of her signature Sea Breeze, her eyes really welled with tears, and she looked right at me and she said, I will not stand for your desperation.

What I take from this journey, from my journeys, is that, in fact, within every fiber of my belief standing here, I know that we can make the impossible possible.

In every one of these rides I always end up standing in one of these incredible locations, taking in this incredible landscape around me, and I feel blessed and fortunate that I'm alive, and that I sense every fiber in my aching body.

And when I stand here in front of all of you, and the people who will watch these things, I'm excited, on behalf of everybody I've met, that there is a possibility that our world could unite, that we could come together as one, that we could lift the level of consciousness around the fundamental issues, brought about by individuals.

But I want to go back now and revisit these steps, and talk about it from the standpoint of transformation, because I really believe that all things can be understood and this is not my own idea. This goes back to the Scholastics and to the Ancients that all things can be understood on four levels the literal, the metaphoric or poetic level, the political or ethical level.