The Measure of a ManI have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set." Sidney Poitier In this luminous memoir, a true American

where it is always green and full of life

interventions

Iraya has spent her life in a cell

and fervently religious mother--his teammate

Milo imagines him arriving home to a castle with a drawbridge and a butler

" For Frederick Joseph

#SayHerName

Every morning

especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood

like its author

do your best

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