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She really led a truly extraordinary life that I didn't know about until now. Just from the article, it mentions: She was raped at 8 years old, didn’t talk for years after her uncles murdered her attacker, was 6 feet tall and dropped out of school at 14, was an unwed mother at 17, became the first black female street car conductor in San Francisco, was a madam in a brothel, toured the world performing in the musical Porgy and Bess, produced and starred in a show for Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was a journalist in Egypt, taught music and dance at the University of Ghana, was nominated for an Emmy for her performance in the famous mini-series Roots, and on top of all that, became most famous as a writer, and spent her later years as a professor as well.
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