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The Greatest Gift Is Not Being Afraid To Question.

My Mother - My Stepmother, Really, She Herself Have Been What They Call An Elocutionist. And She Was The One Who First Encouraged Me To Write Poetry, Because She Used To Read It To Us. And Then When I Began To Write When I Was Nine Years Old, My First Poem Was Published In The Amsterdam News. I Called It "the Graveyard."

That We Arrived At Fifty Years Together Is Due As Much To Luck As To Love, And A Talent For Knowing, When We Stumble, Where To Fall, And How To Get Up Again.

We Both Grew Up In The Atmosphere Of Struggle, Both Ossie And Me, ... I Come Out Of Harlem And Harlem Comes Out Of Me - Wailing Police Sirens And Street Parties, Rumors And Landlords, That Cultural, Spiritual Scene. And Ossie Came Up From The South, Where Struggle And Dying Were Part Of Everyday Life. That Is Who We Are.

Spike Lee Made Such A Difference In Terms Of Black Filmmakers, The Subtleties - Those Authors, Those Writers Who Write From Love, And Those Who Write From That Lofty Position Of Superiority.i Felt He Took Aspects Of The Black Experience In America And Held It Up For Us To See. He Tried To Put It In Perspective. He Did Put It In Perspective In His Unique Way.