“Never let your circumstances define your destiny” (Unknown). I am a minority, a woman, a middle class citizen; neither my mother nor father received a college degree. I am an outsider compared to everyone else in my honors classes because of my race and statistics expect me to fail. All of these “circumstances” are meant to block me from my dreams, but my perseverance and faith thrust me to where I belong… my destiny. As a little girl with wild...

INTELLIGENT: My school producers the cream of the crop minority students! RESILIENT: What does not kill you makes you stronger! Sometimes the "Skegee Struggle" really tried to knock you down,...