 My father actually dropped out of high school. He used to work on the cotton fields in Mississippi and moved to Missouri. For a better future, my mother was a hairstylist. My father unfortunately passed when I was 12. I have two brothers. My mom, with the blessings of God, raised us to be decent human beings. I learned at that early age that I had to pick myself up from my bootstraps like a lot of Americans do to make something out of myself and