I would like to personally thank everyone for their kind and generous gestures on my birthday. People don't have to be nice if they dont want to. These days with all the animosity, tension and hatred in the world KNOW that I love you all and ALL OF YOU MATTER TO ME. However' the biggest thanx goes to this woman right here in this picture for giving birth to me. No i didnt grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth' nor was she able to always get me the latest pair of Jordan's, Adidas, or Reeboks back in the day. Christmas was never filled with dirtbikes'' toys and other trinkets that other kids received when I was growing up. In fact her and my dad married young and lived with my Aunt Pearlee at the beginning of their marriage and had 4 kids before I even showed up. But as a struggling young black woman, in a struggling marriage, depending on her other sisters and brothers to make ends meet, who already had given birth to 4 other kids with me on the way, by societies standards these days I would have been THE PERFECT CANDIDATE FOR AN ABORTION! BUT I THANK GOD MY MOMMA LET ME LIVE! She may not have been able to give me material things that all the other kids had but she gave me LIFE, and after she gave birth to me she kept me in church and told me about a man named Jesus. Now that I think about she actually gave me everything I could ever need in life EVEN without all that other stuff. LIFE and Christ Jesus are priceless gifts. Thanx Mom! #smilenexttime