On Monday January 30th, like many others I had the pleasure of being in the presence of Guyana’s Black Panther star Letitia Wright. Unpretentiously she sat on the stage of the National Cultural Centre and graciously answered questions about the path that led to her success. Having left Guyana at the age of eight, the dream that started as her creating characters, pretending that her family’s fowl pen was a tree house and just being free to be the imaginative child she was, no doubt was a solid foundation. She reminded me of myself as a child and I am sure many of the other creatives who sat at the National Cultural Centre in awe of her humility, faith, and confidence were also reminded of their childhood. We existed in the world of make-believe, found ways to escape the thorns of reality and created our own happiness.
