Can You Become The Hope

I Couldn't Speak Well. I Went To Speech Therapy For 10 Years. And I Was Sort Of Frustrated In That Sense.

Fifty Percent Of All Meaningful Education Takes Place In The Home. What Do You Share With Your Child? You Share Your Interests. I Was A Book Person. I Read With My Son. My Wife Is An Artist. She Dragged His Little Butt Around To Museums. He's An Illustrator Of Children's Books.

Sometimes I Feel Like I Have Walked Into The Middle Of A Movie. Maybe I Can Make My Own Movie. The Film Will Be The Story Of My Life. No, Not My Life, But Of This Experience. I'll Call It What The Lady Who Is The Prosecutor Called Me. Monster.

People Told Me To Give Up Trying To Be Special And Settle Down To A Regular Life. There Ain't Nothing Wrong With A Regular Life, And That's The Lord's Truth...but It Wasn't For Me, Because I Wanted To Be Something Special. I Knew How Easy It Was For A Dream To Die. I Seen That All Around Me. You Could Let It Die By Just Looking The Other Way.

Within The Black Community, Roughly 60 Percent Of Children Are Born To Single Moms. Moms Don't Have The Emotional Wherewithal To Deal With Their Children. Their English Is Atrocious. Their Speaking Is Atrocious. The Dropout Rate Is Horrendous.