Vanessa Williams
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, yeah, I've met seven presidents in my lifetime.
I've got photos of them all.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, my traveling companion, you know, my chaperone said, we've got somebody on the phone for you.
And I was like, oh, my God.
And that was, yeah.
So it was in the grand scheme of things, when you think about history and my parents, you know, were married in 1960 and had me in 1963.
Right.
From their perspective, I mean, John F. Kennedy just got shot.
MLK gets shot, you know, shortly after that.
My brother's born in 1967.
This was the height of the equal rights movement movement.
So, you know, the Voting Act is established.
So as a black couple having kids in the 60s, you're wondering what is the, what is my life going to be?
What can I, what is the security of my life going to be like raising kids?
Which is kind of similar, like what's going on now?
Like the world is, people are getting assassinated.
Oh my God.
It's scary.
It's very scary.