Stephanie Mills Instagram – Joyful Sunday. This is my rest day. Power 💜💜💜💜💜 #spreadlove . . . . ***REPOST*** . . . @retrosoul__ “If it hadn’t been for my family, all those brothers and sisters, I’d be a very different person today…So when I say that they saved me I mean that they kept me so busy caring for them, keeping them from the rats, roaches, falling plaster, and all the banality of poverty that I had no time to go jumping off the roof, or to become a junkie or an alcoholic. It’s either/or in the ghetto. And I was one of the lucky ones. The welfare of my family has always driven me, always controlled me. I wanted to become rich and famous simply so no one could evict my family again.” James Baldwin in conversation with Ida Lewis, Essence Magazine, October 1970 . Photo: James Baldwin & his brother David, 1981 [ Photo Credit: Jane Evelyn Atwood ]