it must be homegrown

If in your thoughts you see something beyond where you are, if you see a dream, a goal, or an aspiration that others would think impossible, you may have to hold it. Sometimes you may have to hide it, and most of the time you will have to water it as a farmer waters his crops to sustain the life in them. Just know that whenever your children, your friends, or anyone else  comes to the table of your wisdom, you can only feed them what you have grown in your own fields.  Your wisdom is so flavorful and its texture so rich that it cant be store bought; it must be homegrown.

Naked and Not Ashamed, T.D. James