“I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.”

“Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a”