From childhood he picked okra for white farmers until one day he defied them, threw in his job and left the South on a Greyhound bus, already sure at 15 that he could never make a life there.

童年的他给白人农场主收羊豆角，直到有一天他不在愿意忍受他们的歧视，扔掉了那份工作，坐上灰狗巴士离开了南部，因为15岁的他，那个时候就知道，在那个地方过一辈子，肯定没有前途。