I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.