First off, what have you been up to since your time playing football?
I’ve done a number of things. Immediately after I hung up my cleats I knew I wanted to be an artist. I always wanted to be an artist – as a kid I was artistic – always doodling and doing projects. I was a big Shel Silverstein fan as a kid – I loved his books. I knew I wanted to do something like that.
I wrote three children’s books since then. Mally in the Middle was my first – all three have their own inspiration. One – Flower Flower Give Her Power – was about a friend of mine who is a single Black father and his experiences raising his daughter. Molly in the Middle – I had that idea while I was playing and shelved it until after football when the time was right. My third book –Numbers Don’t Lie – that was about protests and cops killing Black people – that had a math tie to it too.
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