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A MINISTER: You think people generally live up to their given names? Do they become some certain type of person because of the word that everybody refers to them by?
MINISTER: I mean, you call someone stupid every day of his life, that's gonna factor in somehow. Brilliant, same way. Plus it affects how people treat you. How they perceive you. Just that little bit. I didn't take chances, myself. Changed my own name to somethin' good. Made sure my boy got a good name, too.
[[Martin Luther King, Sr. speaks out]]
REV. KING: His mama wanted to call him QUAY'SHAWN. I said, WOMAN!
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sir that is very interesting but i actually just called to try and trick you into giving out your credit card number over the phone
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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