Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

“Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.”

“I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.”

“I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear…”

“If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.”