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I started saying "it isn't" and "they aren't," and I still did well on the team—and became top of the class—without losing my buddies' respect.
于是我開始說it isn't和they aren't，結果我照樣在隊里表現很好——并且成了班里的尖子生——且沒有失去伙伴們對我的尊重。
During her remarkable 44-year career, Mrs. Bessie Taylor Gwynn taught hundreds of economically deprived black youngsters—including my mother, my brother, my sisters and me. I remember her now with gratitude and affection—especially in this era when Americans are so upset about a "rising tide of mediocrity" in public education and the problems of finding competent, caring teachers. Miss Bessie was an example of an informed, dedicated teacher, a blessing to children and an asset to the nation.
貝茜·泰勒格溫老師在她44年輝煌的職業生涯中，教了數百個貧困的黑人青年學生——這其中就包括我的媽媽、哥哥、姐姐和我。如今我滿懷感激和熱愛之情地懷念她——尤其是在當今這個時代，國人對公共教育日益平庸化，對找不到稱職、充滿愛心的老師等問題深感困擾的時候。貝茜老師是一位知識淵博、致力于教育事業的老師，是學生的福音、國家的財富。
Born in 1895, in poverty, she grew up in Athens, Ala., where there was no public school for blacks. She attended Trinity School, a private institution for blacks run by the American Missionary Association, and in 1911 graduated from the Normal School at Fisk University in Nashville. Mrs. Gwynn, never talked about her years in Athens; only in the months before her death did she reveal that she had never attended Fisk University itself because she could not afford the four-year course.
貝茜老師于1895年出生在一個貧困家庭，在亞拉巴馬州的阿森斯長大。那里沒有供黑人上學的公立學校。她上的是一所由美國教友協會開辦的私立學校——三一學堂，并于1911年畢業于位于那什維爾的菲斯克大學附屬師范學院。格溫老師從沒談過她在阿森斯的生活。直到去世前的幾個月她才說起，由于當時交不起四年的學費，她從來沒上過菲斯克大學。
