All That I Am

I am presenting my autobiographical book, "All That I Am."I am a forty-nine year-old African-American woman — teacher, poet, painter, and jazz singer — a graduate of the Pratt Institute and the first member of my family to graduate. For two years, a curator for the Society Of The Muse Of The Southwest. The idea of writing an autobiography came to me in 1996, after a near-fatal car accident. Coming so close to death inspired me not only to piece my life together, as would any human being, bu...