My mother gave me my love of stories and reading. She told and read me fairy tales, folk tales and personal stories as long as I can remember .She encouraged me to read and instilled in me the belief that if you can read you can do anything. 
She also told me that I could be and/or do anything I put my mind to. I became a social activist because of her belief that if you saw something wrong, a social injustice, you had an obligation to do whatever you could to change it. 
As a result of this philosophy I led a walkout my senior year in high school and got kicked out of school a few months before graduation. At first my Mom was upset but she came to support my actions. I'm a Mama's boy and proud of it.

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