I had felt for a long time that,
if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,
that I would refuse to do so.
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I had felt for a long time that,
if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,
that I would refuse to do so.
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit,
and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Whatever my individual desires were to be free,
I was not alone.
There were many others who felt the same way.
As far back as I can remember,
I knew there was something wrong with our way of life
when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...
so other people would be also free.
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous.
The other day she looked at my calendar
and wanted to know who May was.