Boots Riley

And before that time, she was part of the children's theater workshop that became Sesame Street.

She was one of the cast members.

I don't know.

I just saw a picture and she told me about it because this would come up all the time about because she then had four kids.

And so she would sometimes let folks know, not just sometimes, a lot of times, let folks know what she gave.

Well, what she gave up.

And I didn't find out until after she died she wrote a lot of poetry by reading her journals.

Don't read your mom's journals after she dies.

You'll find a lot about other men and very specific things that you don't want to know about your mom.

And her mother also, though, was a poet.

Her mother also was involved in theater and was the director of Oakland Ensemble Theater, because she then later came, even though her mom

moved away from her when she was a teenage mother.

She came to be like, no, you're going to help me with this.

And she moved to Berkeley.

That's how she got to the West Coast.

Yeah, yeah.

But it was, it definitely did not make me want to do theater.

Yeah, just like in the sense that

It was boring.

Old people stuff, you know, like somebody sitting on the couch arguing with each other.