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In my father's words, "Being Native is not about wearing long hair in braids.
Born in 1960 to a Haitian father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat spent his childhood making art and mischief in Boerum Hill.
While he never attended art school, he learned by wandering through New York galleries, and listening to the music his father played at home.
His one intimate friend, Joshua Speed, was leaving Illinois to go back to Kentucky because Speed's father had died.
It makes you think there's something magic about history to keep your father's attention.
In fact, I'm convinced I learned the narrative art from those nightly sessions with my father.
So I went to my father in tears, "What are we going to do?"
And I must say, even now, when I sit with my sons with our season tickets, I can sometimes close my eyes against the sun and imagine myself, a young girl once more, in the presence of my father, watching the players of my youth on the grassy fields below: Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, and Duke Snider.
When I open my eyes and I see my sons in the place where my father once sat, I feel an invisible loyalty and love linking my sons to the grandfather whose face they never had a chance to see, but whose heart and soul they have come to know through all the stories I have told.
So I went back home, and I had a great cheerleader at home who happens to be my father.
And if the message comes from her father, if the message comes from her brother, it's even much more powerful.
I can't get my father in Italy to work on the Internet.
When you watch your son, who isn't even two years old yet, walk up to his father's bed on the last day of his life, like he knows what's coming in a few hours, and say, "I love you.
As fireworks exploded behind the skyline, my father looked at my mother jokingly and said, "Look, habibti, Americans are celebrating your arrival."
And I could see my father: "Yeah, he really is crazy."
And my father came out, he was so proud.
My dad came out to see me graduate and, you know, I did the deal, and my father said, "We’re really proud of you son, but ... " You know what went on, he said, "You’ve got to start riding and driving and start talking.
The most important gift your mother and father ever gave you was the two sets of three billion letters of DNA that make up your genome.
My father also lived most of his adult life in East Africa.
A father and daughter separated from a bicycle by a mysterious wall.
Coaxing his father from exile, Shi Lin took him to visit the Lei Feng Pagoda to pay respects to his mother.
And his final question was, "If nobody has ever loved you, do you think you can be a good father?"
In addition to higher resolution versions of this display, my father and I are working on a new patent-pending design for a fully volumetric display using the same phenomenon.
His father made yogurt before him, and his grandfather made cream cheese before that.
And we see these families, these nomadic families, you know, father to son, father to son, and these guys are hurting.
And I would go 1.4 miles to my father and stepmother's home and enter a white, Evangelical Christian, conservative, Republican, twice-a-week-churchgoing, meat-eating family.
If somebody sneezed in my mother's home, I would say, "Bless you," in my father's, "God bless you."
Tofu comes out in these big batches, and my father would sort of cut them by hand.
Because, you see, we'd seen my father taking the big block of tofu and cutting it, like, knife in, zap, zap, zap.
My hero is actually not Darwin; it's a guy named William Bateson, father of Greg Bateson, who was here for a long time in Monterey.
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