We want to emphasize community. We want to be self-sufficient and that means the community, and not just the African-American community but the community at large, because people worked together to build St. Petersburg.

What made me realize it wasn’t a seal, I saw the whole body and the tail.

No one would have ever known (that she was ill) because of her drive. She was in a lot of pain, and people didn’t know it.

It means a lot because when I was a little girl, the Lincoln Cemetery was the only place we could be buried.