Autobiography
My name is LaQuinta Walker and I was born in the Spring of April 4, 1987 in Atlanta,
Georgia. I was born to, high school sweethearts, Sharon and John Walker from a small town called Aliquippa, PA. My parents are currently still alive and has been married over 35 years. I am the youngest of five children, and whose name means "The Fifth" in Spanish.
Some cool facts about my birthday are that I share it with the late poet, Maya Angelou.
April 4th occasionally falls on Easter and is the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. These cool facts help reminds me that Greatness was born and ended on my great birthday and I have been passed a torch that will burn on.
Soon after I was born, my family uprooted to Phoenix, Arizona, where my mother's family migrated too. My early childhood was pleasant growing up in the late 1980's. We were an average middle class family. My father enlisted in the Air Force Reserve, while working at
Crystal Bottle Water Company. My mother was a Register Nurse most my life.
Arizona was a good time! The climate there was great or could be extreme heat. Every house appeared to have a pool, which was really cool to own. We owned a golden retriever, who we adopted into our family and named Sassy Frassy Goldy Walker. She was my dog! Sassy had two set of litters prior to coming to live with us, she had a very protective, motherly instinct and I loved her. Sassy was a very good dog, until we made pound cake. As we would let the pound

cake cool, she would jump up on the table and bit off half. It didn't matter to her what the consequence was because she loved pound cake.
Growing up, I had an ideal childhood, but by the time I turned seven years old we had uprooted again and moved back to Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia is where my father's family resides.
Atlanta was nothing like Phoenix growing up.