Jimmy Scott Smithsonian Interview Block 89 (Q2547)

I was born with that. My brother was too - Kenneth - and he passed. You had to realize one thing. I felt, hey, I'm as much man as anybody else. And my mother would say, "You're a man" and make you think the right way about being a young man. There was things that she knew you had to grow into. She would point those things out in her own way to myself and my brother. The women in the family wer ...