Wendell pierce, welcome. Thank you so nice to meet you, an honor to meet you. The honor is mine. And i must say, i love this book, and what i loved about it, i love many things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though its nonfiction. Its such a literary, memoir. Youve written books before, or not . No, this is my first book. What a debut, then thank you, thank you. Im from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and my community, you couldnt even find them in fiction, so right, not credible as fiction, not believable not credible as fiction it was, something that was, very special to me, in a shapshot [evan] intensely personal. Intensely personal. More personal than anything ive ever done before. People say that film lasts forever, but i feel as though to actually put it down on paper in a book is something thats going to be even more lasting. Now, you have an event that is the catalyst for this book, the katrina hurricane, whic
Relationship with booker t. Washington that in fact ends with a woman he was in love with throwing herself off the top of a building and killing herself. Well, our time is a lot shorter and im a lot more proposed that, i mean, to be, but i should tell you that if you think carver had one of these ideal lives, besides fighting and making booker t. Washington and himself wretched for the 19 years they were together, finally booker t finishes and dies. Carvers career is allowed to take off. When he is 60, and his famous everywhere in the world, everyone knew his face, everyone knew his name and he was somehow exempted from all the racial hatred that all other blacks suffered. He fell head over heels in love with a 23year old white man. That affair lasted for 10 years and in the course of that carver was thought to have among his products come up with a cure for the after effects of polio. So, he was also masashi people with his oil 12 hours a day. People who lined up in front of begged hi
Every product he developed, he gave them away to corporations to say i want them to be used in one them to go to people. In the unpaid consultant Thomas Edison offered over 100,000 a year and car refused at a salary of 1,000 per year whatever i do here everybody will know if i go to edison laboratories they beaumont. I have all whole lot more detail by would not be able to. Thanks for braving the water and the wind. You have been a great audience. [applause] a very fascinating and informative presentation. Do you have any questions . He was mesmerizing and he would do is try to please him if he could not separate from a ham. They got booker died in carver lived until the 1943 so he had a long time. If he had been alive that whole time we probably wouldnt even know who George Washington carver was. He had all these products that he produced. He did not even have a bunsen burner. When he would request Something Like to pulverize the compounds it was 9 they refused. And a limited to the p
This is over. applause Wendell Pierce, welcome. Thank you so nice to meet you, an honor to meet you. The honor is mine. And i must say, i love this book, and what i loved about it, i love many things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though its nonfiction. Its such a literary, memoir. Youve written books before, or not . No, this is my first book. What a debut, then thank you, thank you. Im from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and my community, you couldnt even find them in fiction, so right, not credible as fiction, not believable not credible as fiction it was, something that was, very special to me, in a shapshot [evan] intensely personal. Intensely personal. More personal than anything ive ever done before. People say that film lasts forever, but i feel as though to actually put it down on paper in a book is something thats going to be even more lasting. Now, you have an event that is the catalyst for this book, the
applause Wendell Pierce, welcome. Thank you so nice to meet you, an honor to meet you. The honor is mine. And i must say, i love this book, and what i loved about it, i love many things about it, but i loved about it the most, was that it read like fiction even though its nonfiction. Its such a literary, memoir. Youve written books before, or not . No, this is my first book. What a debut, then thank you, thank you. Im from new orleans, so the characters of my life and my family and my community, you couldnt even find them in fiction, so right, not credible as fiction, not believable not credible as fiction it was, something that was, very special to me, in a shapshot [evan] intensely personal. Intensely personal. More personal than anything ive ever done before. People say that film lasts forever, but i feel as though to actually put it down on paper in a book is something thats going to be even more lasting. Now, you have an event that is the catalyst for this book, the katrina hurric