 I enjoyed thinking about where I lived and the housing projects in Harlem in relation to people in other countries, to the mountains and the rivers and the great oceans. I could even draw the map of the United States from memory. And I believe that I had some special knowledge of how the state of Florida felt sitting up under Georgia, stretching out into the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Caribbean Sea. And I used to be on the lookout for the Mason-Dixon line whenever my family drove down south.