I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.
I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.
I didn't mind being in a school with a small African-American population. The African-American-community was very tight, and that was great. But I also wanted to interact with other types of folks.
As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
I always wanted to be a teacher.
All I wanted was to be a university teacher.
I wanted to be a teacher.