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"It was so hard to watch these babies—they would have tremors; they’re inconsolable. And we couldn’t fix it."
2:37
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"He gave me the joys of motherhood, and the pains of motherhood."
3:09
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"The hardest thing I do every day is decide to go outside or not."
3:17
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“Learning became almost a spiteful activity to prove the teachers at the high school wrong.”
3:22
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“My father did what no black man at the time was supposed to do, he allowed his car to run out of gas.”
3:11
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“The letters were everything.”
3:00
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"I applied to NASA four times."
3:41
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"I can remember thinking, ‘What am I doing here?’"
3:10
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“I could see from the doctor’s face that it was really bad.”
2:53
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“I called my mom and told her, ‘There’s been a shooting and Alex was in the theater.'"
2:48
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"I can’t make up for half of your life that I missed."
3:25
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"We see each other every day, every minute of every day."
2:18

Each week, the StoryCorps podcast shares these unscripted conversations, revealing the wisdom, courage, and poetry in the words of people you might not notice walking down the street.