i felt like an idio. >> you threw a chicken wing at don cornelius's forehead. wrong. i thank you goodness we were able to make up before husband passing. way before his passing. and, you know, but that's what i mean. it's like am i really enjoying my life? if i am this person holding on to this anger from the past, am no. >> do you think the temper was innate in you? was that something you had as a circumstances? >> you know, my therapist told me that it was probably -- probably became a part of me once my mother gave me away. >> the anger? >> the anger. and that was when i was a week old. >> have you ever fully come to grips with that? >> yes. >> or is that something that still rises in you sometimes. >> it still rises in me, but i have learned to control it, and i have learned to modify it. you know through the references through cognitive therapy, behavior modification is a beautiful thing. >> it seals you had some luck, though, later on. at least when it came to your career. you started by choreographing >> yes. >> which is huge. >> it's huge. i was so excited. >>

with the poet cornelius eady, she cofounded cave canem, an organization committed to cultivating and supporting the work of african american poets. she says, "truth telling in my art is also a way to separate myself from what i have been taught to believe about myself-- the degrading stereotypes about black women." >> blackbottom. when relatives came from out of town, we would drive down to blackbottom. drive slowly down the congested main streets-- beaubien and hastings-- trapped in the mesh of saturday night. we were freshly escaped, black middle class. we snickered and were proud; the louder the streets, the prouder. we laughed at the bright clothes of a prostitute; a man sitting on a curb with a bottle in his hand. we smelled barbecue cooking in dented washtubs and our mouths watered. as much as we wanted it, we couldn't take the chance. rhythm and blues came from the windows, the throaty voice of a woman lost in the bass, in the drums, in the dirty down and out-- the grind. ♪"i love to see a funeral, then i know it ain't mine." ♪ we rolled our windows down so that the waves roll

. >> reporter: in virginia we met cornelius williams whose business is showing no signs of cooling off. >> been a nasty winter. >> reporter: still, this winter is producing stunning scenes like nantucket's nearly frozen waves. this wald eagle keeping her little once warm. and along lake superior so cold it's now safe for wisconsin's famed ice caves to welcome guests again. spring barely three weeks away. peter alexander, nbc news, arlington, virginia. >> and don't look now, just about three weeks to spring and there is another big snowmaker on the way for much of the country. janice huff is in the weather center. janice, notice i no longer ask you if there's relief in sight. i know the answer. >> you know what, lester, some parts of the northeast that have been dealing with this brutal cold for so long will get a bit of reprieve next week for a brief time but overall we're still stuck in the pattern. yes, now, a snowstorm that will be dropping over the southern rockies is going to move out into the plains over the next couple of days. so for tonight around denver south towards albuquer

with the poet cornelius eady, she cofounded cave canem, an organization committed to cultivating and supporting the work of african american poets. she says, "truth telling in my art is also a way to separate myself from what i have been taught to believe about myself-- the degrading stereotypes about black women." >> blackbottom. when relatives came from out of town, we would drive down to blackbottom. drive slowly down the congested main streets-- beaubien and hastings-- trapped in the mesh of saturday night. we were freshly escaped, black middle class. we snickered and were proud; the louder the streets, the prouder. we laughed at the bright clothes of a prostitute; a man sitting on a curb with a bottle in his hand. we smelled barbecue cooking in dented washtubs and our mouths watered. as much as we wanted it, we couldn't take the chance. rhythm and blues came from the windows, the throaty voice of a woman lost in the bass, in the drums, in the dirty down and out-- the grind. ♪"i love to see a funeral, then i know it ain't mine." ♪ we rolled our windows down so that the waves roll

. >> and then joined the cornelius cornelius, and then chosen to be the speaker of the north carolina house and served until 2014. so there is a passion for public service and an ambition that the country greatly needs so we welcome you here to the bipartisan policy center. i'm going to spend 20 minutes and then we'll turn over the audience and i would like to get started with about an issue you spoke about in your campaign and that is what you hope to get into and there is an obstructionism here in washington standing in the way of the public interest. you were a management consultant so how would you turn this place around. >> i guess the thing i can look back to is what i've done as speaker of the house and when i came in as a freshman in 2007. i ran against a two-term incumbent in 2006 who was the award getter of all of the conservative organizations in the state but the fact of the matter he wasn't effective and that is why i decided to run against him. it wasn't the people that got the ribbons it was the people that got the results. so going into the legislature, i spent my fres

a woman named cornelius been. when new people come in they want to mix things up and bring in their own people. so i was one of her people. she took a liking to me and i pitched an article about a leprosy hospital in carville, louisiana. she said sure. we will send a photographer down. go down and do the story so i went to cargill and stayed two or three days and wrote this piece and it came out about three days after i started my internship and two days before i met my wife, sonya. it was an eventful week. and corey dean would say why don't you write about your internship? i said okay. it turned out to be a great indication, because in an internship everything is new. as you go on in medicine you get jaded. you see things and you start questioning but when you are and in turn everything is new is rubles a year end up with i don't give a hoot what i write. i am going to write about what i see and the things that interest me and the things i am going to question. i remember one of my early pieces as an intern, ther

then he joined the cornelius -- >> eight years ago. [laughter] >> -- north carolina board of commissioners. 2006, house of representatives in north carolina. he was chosen by his colleagues to be the speaker of the north carolina house and served from 2011-2014. so there is a passion for public service and an ambition that i think the country greatly needs, so we welcome you here to the bipartisan policy center. i want to spend about 20 minutes asking some questions, and then we're going to turn it over to the audience. and i think i'd like to get started with an issue you spoke quite a bit about in your campaign, and that is what you were hoping to get into. that there is kind of obstructionism here in washington which is, i think, standing in the way of a lot of the public interest. you were a management consultant, so how would you turn place around? turn this place around? >> i guess the thing i can look back to is what i've done as speaker of the house, and when i came in as a freshman in 2007 i actually ran against a two-term rep

. >> stephen cornelius. madam chancellor which guarantees do you have?hich guarantees do you expect that a potential agreement on a cease-fire will now not be treated as the minsk agreement or geneva agreement in the future? >> there are no theoretical guarantees to this. only the experience that what we're promised is something that will then be implemented. what we've seen after the minsk agreement is, well, very dissolutionary. and very disappointing. president porishenko has run a political risk by accepting the terms of the minsk memorandum and also a political risk after the rada actually agreed the status and they accepted the minsk agreement and contact line. all of these were not simple things to accept, so there is great disappointment there now. and because obviously one can't be content with being disappointed and have to continue, i would be very careful about saying something about guarantees because guarantee, well, that depends on you and your partner entering into some kind of binding agreement and so far the experience has not been a go

a woman named cornelius been. when new people come in they want to mix things up and bring in their own people. so i was one of her people. she took a liking to me and i pitched an article about a leprosy hospital in carville, louisiana. she said sure. we will send a photographer down. go down and do the story so i went to cargill and stayed two or three days and wrote this piece and it came out about three days after i started my internship and two days before i met my wife, sonya. it was an eventful week. and corey dean would say why don't you write about your internship? i said okay. it turned out to be a great indication, because in an internship everything is new. as you go on in medicine you get jaded. you see things and you start questioning but when you are and in turn everything is new is rubles a year end up with i don't give a hoot what i write. i am going to write about what i see and the things that interest me and the things i am going to question. i remember one of my early pieces as an intern, ther

a woman named cornelius been. when new people come in they want to mix things up and bring in their own people. so i was one of her people. she took a liking to me and i pitched an article about a leprosy hospital in carville, louisiana. she said sure. we will send a photographer down. go down and do the story so i went to cargill and stayed two or three days and wrote this piece and it came out about three days after i started my internship and two days before i met my wife, sonya. it was an eventful week. and corey dean would say why don't you write about your internship? i said okay. it turned out to be a great indication, because in an internship everything is new. as you go on in medicine you get jaded. you see things and you start questioning but when you are and in turn everything is new is rubles a year end up with i don't give a hoot what i write. i am going to write about what i see and the things that interest me and the things i am going to question. i remember one of my early pieces as an intern, ther