" My grandmother, who largely raised me and my siblings, often told me that My older brother was going to be the successful one and I was not. I’ll never know if this was because she raised my older brother has her own son, Or because, out of the nine Siblings In my family--by seven different fathers—I was the only one with an active father, and this was her way Of evening out the playing field. Today, she only tells me that she was wrong. But the greater tragedy far beyond Any pain I felt at her earlier Assessment, Is that my older brother has been in and out of jail for years. "

― Gianno Caldwell , Taken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed