You’re gettin’ above your raisin’ is a saying we
have in American South. Translation: You think
you’re better than you really are. Sometimes, I’m accused of gettin’ above
my raisin’ and this could not be further from the truth.
I'm from rural Kentucky. I have a deep love
for the Bluegrass State. It'll always be my home. But I knew from an early age
that I was going to leave, that I would move to Los Angeles or New York. Or
maybe both. I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a director. I was a
storyteller and I wanted to go where I could tell those stories. I wanted to
leave my old Kentucky home.
But that doesn't mean I don't love it. I'll
sometimes say things like "my dreams were bigger than the Kentuck'
sky" or "I love to visit but I don't want to live there."
Sometimes people misinterpret me. It might sound highfalutin (translation: to
hold oneself in unduly high regard) if you don't understand my intent. I just
always knew that I was different from my neighbors, that the things I wanted
from life were very different from everyone else around me. I am proud of my roots, there’s no place in the world
I would have rather grown up than western Kentucky.
But I had places to go. People to see. And
things to do.
It’s silly to think that because I don’t want
to live somewhere that I don’t like it there or that I somehow think too highly
of myself. Or that because I work in showbiz that I think I’m too good to do
something else. I just wasn’t made to do anything else. We all have gifts and
it would be wrong not to use mine. I was created with them for a reason.
Simmer down, y’all. I am exactly where I
wanna be but I haven’t forgotten where I’m from.
Yeehaw. - AG
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