"I decided it was important to tell my story because I understand that there are many people out there who started the way I did, or in similar circumstances. Poverty is a reality for many people around the world, and too often, those who are born into it live their whole lives defined by it. For most of my life, I did too. But the good Lord would have it that I met people along the way who believed in my potential in a way that sparked something inside me and pushed me to become better. Their belief helped me to see that there was more to my life than the circumstances I was born into. My story is influenced by struggle, but that is not the central theme. As you turn these pages, I hope you will see beyond the struggles I faced and, somewhere in my story, discover that there is more inside you too."

-Johnoy J. Davis || Author