DAYBREAK
"If it's not the break of day or a broken heart, the Lawson family can fix it."
(quote from a newspaper clipping)
LABOR
"Teach your children to take care of themselves. Learn how to prepare food, survive and live on their own.
It's labor, what I'm talking about."
TREES
"I have 21 trees planted for each of my children and grands...I had two of your older cousins help me set them out. They were small boys then...9 and 10 years old. Now they have their own children and those trees are fully grown."
3 JOBS
"I've had 3 jobs since I've left the cotton field: a painter, a grease boy, and this job right here.
I think I've done alright, myself"
STRUGGLE
"Dont give up if you fall, okay? Get back up. God will lift you back up and guide you through it"
TRAVEL
"As you're traveling, don't keep your head down. Look and see signs, structures and buildings.
Therefore, if something happens and you don't know where you are, people can find you."
MATERIAL
"When they were 6 and 7 I would go out there and show them how to cut material, how to measure material...
so that if anything happened they'd be able to do some things."
TEACH
"I taught my children everything I possibly could while they were young so that incase anything happened to me, they would be able to make it...take care of the family and survive."
SACRIFICE
" I was one of the first blacks to own a hot rod in this town...over time I've had to sell them to take care of the shop"
HAPPINESS
"My happiest moment so far in life was Thursday (9/24/15)...We celebrated the birthdays of both my youngest and eldest children. It's all full cicle."
GRATEFUL
"God has done me as Job... I am so grateful. He has been so good to me. Always keep Him first"
