I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.
“At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.”
“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”