Les Brown: Turning Challenges into Triumphs | Inspiring Story of Strength and Determination

There's a quote that says, in life we will always be faced with a series of God ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges. I decided that I was going to do whatever I needed to do so that my mother would never be put in the humiliating situation of clapping her hands because someone thinks that she is stealing. I remember, and I was looking out of the window and mama could tell that I was crying. And she asked me, leslie, why are you crying? I said, because I'm angry. I want to be a man. And she said, you're too 10 years old. You'll be a man soon enough. Because if I was a man now, we would not have to come and clean other people's homes. I will have a big beautiful home for you. We would never have to come over here and you cook for people and we wait around to see what's left over and we gather that up to take home for my brothers and sisters to eat. If I was a man now, no one will ever make you clap your hands.