She taught me to feel empathy, and I cherished itMy mother learned to read at 63 - she was still the smartest woman I knowMy mother learned to read at 63 - she was still the smartest woman I knowIt was a couple of hours after I got off the school bus one day in 1969 when my destiny was set. “Mama, Mama, look! “I don’t know how to read or write. It was constant chaos, and a woman who couldn’t read a lease or the phonebook had no way out. I had often told my friends up north that my mother was the smartest person I knew, and I meant it.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2018 10:01 UTC