It Sometimes Is Just The Fear Of

I Mean, Dad Was One Of These People Who Simply Could Not Lose, You Know? He Could Not Stand It When A Kid Was Beating Him. He Would Go Crazy When The Child Came To That Moment, Which, You Know, You Have To Come To - I Mean, Dad Played Old Maids Like He Played Football. He Just Simply Had To Win Every Single Thing Every Single Time.

What Puts Someone On Guard Isn't Necessarily The Fear Of Being Found Out.

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.

When You're Reading A Newspaper And You're Seeing Ads On The Page, It's Not Kind Of Invasive. Like, It's On The Page Next To The Article. You Can Look At It Or Not. You Can Turn The Page When You're Ready. On The Internet, The Ads - Many Of The Ads - Just Are So Controlling. They Insist That You See Them.

We Grew Up As This Family Of Deniers. And People Who Knew Us For Years Were Stunned When "the Great Santini" Came Out Because We Had This Appearance Of Being This Happy, Large, Smiling Family. We Were Taught To Smile, Put The Best Face Forward. And So When The Book Ended Up - Dad Swatting Us Around The Room, No One Believed Me.