“The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.”
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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.
I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.
