I am the me I choose to be.
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.