Dame Wilburn

And if I speak about you to people, what I will say to them is you were formidable.

I was not an easy child to raise.

I was interested in everything and nothing all at once.

And I was a comedian and I was a charmer and easily able to

to get in and out of things.

What I thought I did was I had driven my mother to distraction.

In these later years, I've talked to her sister.

She said, your mother never talked to me or anybody else that I know of as if you were a burden.

And when I heard that, I started crying because my perception of how I had been as a child was not my mother's perception at all.

As I've gotten older, that's been of a real comfort.

I also was thinking about sending you the tattoo I have on my right arm.

It's the first tattoo I ever got.

And I hid it from her for like a year before she finally saw it one day.

And she said, what's that?

And it's a dragon.

And I said, well, I was going to get a heart that said mom in it, but they were all out of red.

So I just got a portrait of you.

That's good. So I don't know if you can tell it by looking at me, but I'm not necessarily an athlete. Now... If you back up to when I was in ninth grade, I was actually, if you can believe it, less athletic than I am now. My mother and I didn't really see eye to eye on a lot of things, and two of them happened to be the two things she was good at, which was school and basketball.

That's good. So I don't know if you can tell it by looking at me, but I'm not necessarily an athlete. Now... If you back up to when I was in ninth grade, I was actually, if you can believe it, less athletic than I am now. My mother and I didn't really see eye to eye on a lot of things, and two of them happened to be the two things she was good at, which was school and basketball.

That's good. So I don't know if you can tell it by looking at me, but I'm not necessarily an athlete. Now... If you back up to when I was in ninth grade, I was actually, if you can believe it, less athletic than I am now. My mother and I didn't really see eye to eye on a lot of things, and two of them happened to be the two things she was good at, which was school and basketball.