Book Sample from \"Will\"
Description
Vocal Characteristics
Language
EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
Dario had been here before, except the last time he was sitting in my seat when he was being told by his parents what he could and couldn't do when he had so loved his camera. But he'd been told it was just a hobby, not a career at his heart. Daddio was an artist who had been robbed of his dreams and his passions because they were unrealistic and impractical, but he also knew firsthand the viciousness of the world against an uneducated blackhead, everything Daddio ever did. Somebody had told him he couldn't do it. He was supposed to get a job because there was no way he could start his own business. People told him there were no there was no way white people will work for him. There was no way real supermarkets would buy ice from a black man. He lived against a ferocious headwind of doubt and discouragement. But he did it all anyway. So here's what we're gonna do. Daddio said, you've got one year, your mother said she can get all of them schools to hold your acceptance until next september, we're gonna help you and support you to do anything you think you need to do to succeed. But in one year, if it ain't happening, you're going to go to whichever one of them school is. Your mother choose. That works for you. In my mind. A year was forever. I was ecstatic. He turned to mom that work for you. Mom clearly didn't love it, but this was the compromise that kept her dreams alive. She only said one word, yep