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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more.

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.