“I decided that I didn’t want to let my own hurts make me into a selfish person. I wanted to be a better person, not a sad or angry or discouraged person. So that’s when I decided that I was going to spend my life trying to do good things for other folks, especially folks with pains and the marks of invisible whippings down inside them. I began looking at folks I met just a little different. I said to myself, Maybe that man or that woman or that little boy or girl . . . maybe they’ve got hurts inside.