Carl Sapp
Inglewood
“Never give up on something that you start. Keep striving because you never know where life can take you, where God can take you.”

Clint Richman
West Adams District
“Stay focused. Don’t quit. Keep your word. Always be kind, that way, it will always be returned. That’s the biggest impression you can leave on a person.”

James Perry
Beverly Hills
“However you start your relationship or your work that’s how it’s going to end. That’s the way it works.”

Venson Quarles
Santa Ana
“He taught me that love is seeking to meet the needs of another at the cost of a personal sacrifice. He went out of his way to make sure that my mother had what she needed.”
Compiled by Cynthia Gibson in Exposition Park, Los Angeles.