I Was Good At Keeping My Mother

I'm Not Afraid To Fail. Sometimes When You Lose, You Win. Sometimes When You Win, You Lose.

You Have To Meet All Of The Challenges, Big And Small. Because How You Start Is How You Finish.

My Family Are Police Officers, Detectives. My Brother Mitch Is Fbi. Mitch Is Like That - A Stern Enforcer.

I Became The Storyteller Of South Side Chicago. I Used An Old Kiwi Liquid Shoe Polish As A Microphone. I'd Go Around The House Interviewing Everybody, Telling Stupid Jokes, Doing Voices. I Mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., People On 'laugh-in,' Flip Wilson.

I Learned Hard Lessons In Life; I Had To Because I Had So Much Happen: My Mother Died My Sophomore Year In High School. The Next Year, Same Day, My Brother Dropped Dead. Two Years After That, I Got Married Because My Girlfriend Got Pregnant. The Year After My Wedding, My Father - Who I Had Only Recently Met - Died.