I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.