When I was in Africa, a man said to me, “You know, you do work that sometimes is dangerous.” He was speaking of the time I was working in Philadelphia, with street kids. There were times that I was called on to help because violence was getting ready to take place. When I first took this job, I was eighteen years old; my life was threatened every day for the first two or three months. So, this guy in Africa, he could see into my past. And he told me, whenever you walk into a