When I Leave Here, When My Final

I Know And Value What It Means To Wake Up And Be Alive And To Share My Story. I'm So Blessed To Be Here And To Be Able To Talk About It.

It's Not Painful To Relive It. I'm Comfortable With My Position In American History.

Obama, He Wouldn't Have Been In Office Without What Happened To Me And A Lot Of Black People Before Me. He Would Never Have Been In That Situation, No Doubt In My Mind. He Would Get There Eventually, But It Would Have Been A Lot Longer. So I Am Glad For What I Went Through. It Opened The Doors For A Lot Of People.

I Had To Learn To Forgive. I Couldn't Sleep At Night. I Got Ulcers. I Had To Let Go, To Let God Deal With It. No One Wants To Be Mad In Their Own House. I Didn't Want To Be Angry My Whole Life. It Takes So Much Energy Out Of You To Be Mean.

People Look At Me Like I Should Have Been Like Malcolm X Or Martin Luther King Or Rosa Parks. I Should Have Seen Life Like That And Stay Out Of Trouble, And Don't Do This And Don't Do That. But It's Hard To Live Up To Some People's Expectations.