and so wow. but that s what i m talking about. i was shooting hoop at 3:00 in the morning. so kids got to understand, they got to make sacrifices. they got to put the work in. tyler? yeah, for me, my greatest thing to overcome was my mind because i was born into this situation. i was born into poverty. i was born into what i saw every day. but and everybody around me would tell me, this is it, this is your life. this is all you will ever be. you will never be any higher than this. you would never go any further than this. but once i began to understand that the dream that i had was taking on a life of its own, i had to get my mind to catch up with the dream. because i literally lived two blocks in front of where i walked out of my front door, two blocks in front of the house i lived in there were all these mansions that lined st. charles avenue. two blocks behind me, literally, i had to go to school. i had to walk through the graveyard, through the projects
he was a student of mahatma ghandi who believed in peace and a place to make a difference nonviolently. so we re celebrating 50 years, 50 years after this very thing. and i was just thinking it s amazing because i only feel like i m about 17, but the thing about it is i just remember that i was given my first award here at the apollo 50 years ago when i was 13 years of age by paul newman and joanne woodward. right here at the apollo? you were given your first award. and i want artists to remember the dream and dream their dream. i think that, you know, we have
know, i knew it was very dangerous, but i was like challenged to also be a part of that. you know, she came on the scene when i was trying to put my hand in the wax. and you know, she wrapped me up in her arms and took me home. and you know, i got the belt. i got the whipping. lula mae had high standards. and she wanted me to be independent but not irresponsible. wow, i m going to leave it right there till we do the panel. thank you, steve. we re going to come back with the panel. straight ahead, stevie will be with us again. stevie wonder, y all. coming up, cory booker on advancing the dream in politics. and stevie and magic back on stage in moving forward.
have been by then, which is we have overcome we have overcome we have overcome today whoa deep in my heart we do believe we have overcome today and let me say as we get ready to go, let me say that, as we as a country remember the dream, as i stood there at lincoln memorial and the 50th anniversary of dr. king s
they can feel it all over they can feel it all over welcome back. welcome back. well, our panel is growing. in our last few minutes we re joined now by one of pioneering businessmen on wall street, ron blaylock. glad to have you on. thank you, reverend. ron, you heard magic johnson talking about the difficulties of business and ted banks turning him down, and he s magic johnson. how was it for you and other businessmen that have tried to in these years that the dream was trying to be realized, go into business and develop business as a minority even on wall street? as earvin said, it s very difficult. a lot of setbacks. a lot of nos.