Mine Was An Easy Ride Compared To

I Wanted To Explore The Values That Are At Work, Underpinning My Life.

I Learned To Hear Silence. That's The Kind Of Life I Lived: Simple. I Learned To See Things In People Around Me, In My Mom, Dad, Brothers And Sisters.

I Was Born Two Months Early, And Everyone Had Given Up On Me. But My Mother Insisted On My Life.

I Didn't Run Into Racism Until We Moved To Nassau When I Was Ten And A Half, But It Was Vastly Different From The Kind Of Horrendous Oppression That Black People In Miami Were Under When I Moved There At 15. I Found Florida An Antihuman Place.

Far As I Can Tell, I Still Have Most Of My Hair, My Gut Is Not Hanging Over My Belt, And I Still Have All Of My Teeth.