But When You Come From

It Doesn't Matter What You're Trying To Accomplish. It's All A Matter Of Discipline. I Was Determined To Discover What Life Held For Me Beyond The Inner-city Streets.

I'm In My Prime. There's No Goal Too Far, No Mountain Too High.

By The Time I Was 12 I Was Challenging Every Boy In Our Neighborhood At Running, Jumping, Everything.

'i Can't' Are Two Words That Have Never Been In My Vocabulary. I Believe In Me More Than Anything In This World.

Black Women . . . Work Because Their Husbands Can't Make Enough Money At Their Jobs To Keep Everything Going. . . . They Don't Go To Work To Find Fulfillment, Or Adventure, Or Glamour And Romance, Like So Many White Women Think They Are Doing. Black Women Work Out Of Necessity.