Where Did I Get The Nerve To

Teacher? I Never Dreamed I Could Rise So High In The World

We Never Really Had Any Kind Of A Christmas. This Is One Part Where My Memory Fails Me Completely.

After A Full Belly All Is Poetry.

I Appealed To My Mother. I Told Her It Wasn't Fair The Way The Whole Family Was Invading My Dreams And She Said, Arrah, For The Love O' God, Drink Your Tea And Go To School And Stop Tormenting Us With Your Dreams.

First Of All There Is Always That Artistic Challenge Of Creating Something. Or The Particular Experience To Take Slum Life In That Period And Make Something Out Of It In The Form Of A Book. And Then I Felt Some Kind Of Responsibility To My Family.