Just As I AM
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Sicily Tyson, just as I am, a memoir narrated by Janine Robinson. Introduction this life. I never intended to write an autobiography decades ago after I presented an award to Barbara Jordan, the trailblazing civil rights leader and first african american elected to the texas senate, I asked her, what are you going to write your book? A smile spread across Barbara's face when I have something to say. She told me. In that moment I decided that if a woman as accomplished as Barbara could get away with such a reply. So could I, Years later, a gentleman from the Washington post interviewed me. When are you going to write your book? He asked. And just as I had been doing for some time by then I borrowed Barbara's response. When I have something to say, I told him, Well, I've been talking to you for nearly three hours, he said, chuckling. And it sounds to me like you've got plenty to say.