There were good jobs, but they were never what I wanted to do. Somehow, people always thought of Wilma Rudolph as a threat.

You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can't go back to living the way you did before because you've been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.

In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.

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