If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.