"The movies were a place where my single mother could hide in the dark and not have to share her Sonny Boy with anyone else."
"My mother and I lived in a series of furnished rooms in Harlem and then moved into her parents' apartment, in the South Bronx."
"Suffice it to say that they were young parents, even for the time. I probably hadn't even turned two when they split up."
"I instinctively shouted out, 'Dada!' My mother shushed me. I shouted for him again: 'Dada!' She kept whispering, 'Shh-quiet!' She didn't want him to find her."
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