Ben carson mother quotes
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Ben Carson's mom, former Detroiter, is 'critically ill'
In the rise of Ben Carson from impoverished Detroit schoolkid to world-renowned neurosurgeon to long-shot Republican president candidate, there's one constant inspiration: his mother.
Sonya Carson — a former Detroiter whose own hardscrabble story her son often cites as the quintessential example of American pride — is in failing health.
Ben Carson is officially announcing his presidential campaign this morning in Detroit. But his campaign announced early this morning that his plans to visit Iowa later today have been canceled so that he can visit his mother in Dallas.
The campaign released a statement saying she is "critically ill."
Living in poverty as a single mother on Detroit's southwest side in the 1950s and 1960s, she famously forced her sons to read two books a week and deliver book reports to her, even though she could not read them.
"But they didn't know that," she told the Detroit Free Press Magazine in 1988.
It wasn't until later that she earned a college degree.
"Nobody," she said in 1988, "was born to b
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For someone who married at age 13, got divorced later on with 2 sons to raise singlehandedly, juggled more than two jobs to make ends meet and had very little formal education just up to third grade; it will be very easy for anyone to believe that nothing good would come out from any parenting such a mother can give looking at the circumstances.
Well, Sonya Carson, mother of Ben Carson gave the world a gentle surprise when against all odds; she rose beyond very confounding circumstances and pushed her sons in a way that helped them achieve their potentials in life. She was the driving force behind her son, Ben Carson, who became one of the greatest neurosurgeons and the first neurosurgeon to separate conjoined twins joined at the back of the head.
“….If you don’t succeed, you only have yourself to blame.” – Sonya Carson
Sonya Carson, Ben Carson’s mother was one of 24 siblings of her parent born in 1928 and grew up in foster homes until she met and married her 28-year-old husband at the age of 13. She stopped attending school after the third grade before she could
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Ben Carson
American neurosurgeon and politician (born 1951)
Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries.[2][3][4] Carson is one of the most prominent black conservatives in the United States.[5]
Carson became the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in 1984 at age 33, then the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States.[6] In 1987, he gained significant fame after leading a team of surgeons in the first-known separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head. Although the surgery was a success, the twins continued to experience neurological and medical complications.[7] His additional accomplishments include performing the first successful
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