Bill Perkins

You know, dreams were squashed.

It was openly squashed and legally squashed, right?

Like in this.

And I was born post-civil rights, okay?

And so, one of the things, and I don't want to turn this into a whole racial story, but one of the advantages of growing up in Jersey City being black is that

people in that period, people talk about you.

You're accused of this.

Why are your people like this?

You know, you're inferior.

You can't do this or whatever.

And so what you develop, okay, the good side of that is you don't know what people think.

You've been trained.

You know what's true about you and your people and your relatives or whatever, we're not bad people, we're not criminals, I'm not whatever, I'm not this, I'm not inferior, I'm not whatever.

You just learn to brush that all off, right?

And my dad was a badass.

And he was like, you can do whatever.

We look at all the adversity we have to deal with and we overcome, right?

And so that not giving a what people think and only listening to your dreams

is a superpower forged in adversity, right?

And so, like, I just, you just, so, you know, a lot of people walk around like, I don't care what you think or whatever, and they're thinking this about whatever.