But Common Sense jumped up and gave her love. I felt like a coward. But I was gonna talk to her, I was just waiting for the right time. I wanted to wait until after they announced my name for the nomination for Outstanding Literature in Fiction, you know, to make it seem like I was a somebody too. I'm just being honest here, folks.
Human perception is something else.
I'm not even the nervous and afraid type. So I don't know what came over me at that moment. But the crowd screamed even louder for the more popular authors. I stood up to walk toward the stage, and I had to walk right past Jill Scott to get there. So I walked straight up there and grabbed my big, beautiful award from E. Lynn Harris and Loretta Devine, and went to face the microphone.