I'm Not The Betting Kind.

You Know, How Am I Leading My Own Life? What Am I Denying? Since I Brought Such Great Powers Of Denial Into My Adult Life, What Am I Not Doing As A Husband? What Am I Not Doing As A Father? The Whole Thing Started Unraveling With Me That Once I Kept It Up Close To The Chest, I Could Hold It All In, But Once I Started Letting It Out, It All Started Coming Out.

Dad Mistook - For Some Reason Unbeknownst To Me - He Mistook His Family For A Platoon Of Marines. I Mean, He - The Exact Same Thing He Brought To The Disciplining Of A Squadron, A Battalion, A Platoon, He Brought To The Disciplining Of His Children. He Ran The House - He Had Saturday Morning Inspections For Us, He Had White-glove Inspections For Us As Kids.

And The Rules Were So Clear, You Could Not Deviate From That All. And I Think It Especially Damaged My Sisters Because There Was Nothing They Could Do To Get My Father's Attention, To Win His Approval. They Could Not Play Sports. They Could Not Do These Other Things. They Could Not Be Tough. They Could Not Be Macho. And So I Think They Suffered Just From Sheer Neglect If Nothing Else.

When I Hear A Politician Speak Biographically, I Never Know What's Part Of The Campaign Biography Narrative That's Been Carefully Crafted.

I'm First Generation American, And My Parents Were Both From Nigeria. And So I Always Say That I'm Literally An African American. So My Last Name Is Famuyiwa, It's Different. And So That Was A Part Of My Experience From People Not Being Able To Pronounce It To Not Sort Of Having Sort Of A Shared, Common History With A Lot Of The Kids That I Was Growing Up With Because My Parents Were From Africa.