Dreams Aren't For People Like Us

Clifford Leroy Lee was born in Watts, where his life was forged through the harsh realities of gang life, poverty, and survival in the Nickerson Gardens projects. Lee grew up with an absent father and was raised in a world where children portrayed violence as their way of life. Clifford thus went deep into the violent world of the Bloods. As Clifford struggles through family conflicts, gang battles, and the anguish of hustling, his life story changes into a struggle not only to survive but to be