Description Hard Times and Survival: The Autobiography of an African American Son is my story.
I hope I am an example that will help others who are suffering through similar atrocities to be motivated to not give up but persevere and that they will, as I did, overcome anything they are being faced with..
I started to write in 1993 about what had happened to me over the years and how I used my dire circumstances as motivation to pick myself up and make my life better.
I did not graduate, but I learned valuable life lessons.
I studied above a master\'s at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville from 1980 to 1983.
I earned my BA and MA degrees.
From 1977 to 1980, I attended Virginia State University in Petersburg.
From 1975 to 1977, I went to Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville.
That was after I spent a year in Job Corps from 1966 to 1967.
However, success is the best revenge After three years of alcoholism, I pulled myself together and went back to school on my own.
He tried to kill me once but kept up a constant campaign of horrible abuses of my mother until I left home at sixteen.
I saw it all in my first sixteen years: unbridled lust, gross immorality, damning lies, and terrible brutality by my father against me and my mother.
It is how I overcame all the heartbreaking, brutal, and horrendous circumstances that I was born into in 1947.
Description Hard Times and Survival: The Autobiography of an African American Son is my story
