My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents divorced very very young... welfare and homeless at four and then again at 16 and just not having the things or the necessary tools that society would say I needed to have in order to be any kind of success in life.
I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.
I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.
I grew up in a house where service to the country was a way of life, not a means of reaching a personal goal.
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.
I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.
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