- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.
- Okay
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a lost cause.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought, 'Let's make it a check list. What if I got my education even though I lost my mother, even though my dad is in a shelter?' and looking at these things as hurdles to go over. I could inspire myself.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess if there is a big spiritual experience in my life, it is me becoming a mother.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply loved.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized eventually that when I ran out of places to stay and found myself on the D train and in Central Park, I was actually homeless.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could have a family and a home one night, and all of it's gone the next, that must mean that life has the capacity to change. And then I thought, 'Whoa! That means that just as change happens to me, I can cause change in my life.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020