Voices that Inspire

What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's voices that inspire. My name is John Alexander Bailey. I'm a senior at Lincoln High School and I plan on attending Florida and the University and I graduate in 2018. I have grown up around family and families just seems like a traditional place to go. It's a very great HBCU. I will have plenty of opportunities. Every home coming home up there, my brothers, they go there and my mom and my dad worked there. It's a very good environment for me. I have a lot of leaders in my life. My mom and dad of course, they always have them a bag. They're always inspiring me. Mary Gillum. He went to Rickards with my brothers. That's hard on how I got to know him and he's always been kind of there for me. And then I also was in a program with him, the young leaders program. The things that inspire me the most about him is he's always in a positive mood and he always has a can-do attitude. He cares so very well and I just do my best at carrying myself well. I have to have a can-do attitude. Be involved in the community obviously. I have to get out and show people like what I'm doing and then give back to the community. Lead by example. I would like to thank the links for giving me this opportunity to be a part of the links battalion and helping me become a more responsible young man and getting me prepared for manhood and I would just like to thank them for having me a part of this program. I see myself in ten years working to get my master's degree, having a job, saving financially and working to work being successful. I'm John Bailey. I'm a senior at Lincoln High School and I'll be graduating in 2018. Voices that inspire is produced by WFSU Public Media and partnership with our local community. For more information, visit wfsu.org.