I Had Given Up My Seat Before,

What Really Matters Is Not Whether We Have Problems, But How We Go Through Them. We Must Keep Going On To Make It Through Whatever We Are Facing.

At The Time I Was Arrested I Had No Idea It Would Turn Into This. It Was Just A Day Like Any Other Day. The Only Thing That Made It Significant Was That The Masses Of The People Joined In.

I'd See The Bus Pass Every Day… But To Me, That Was A Way Of Life; We Had No Choice But To Accept What Was The Custom. The Bus Was Among The First Ways I Realized There Was A Black World And A White World.

Racial Pride And Self-dignity Were Emphasized In My Family And Community.

We Didn't Have Any Civil Rights. It Was Just A Matter Of Survival, Of Existing From One Day To The Next. I Remember Going To Sleep As A Girl Hearing The Klan Ride At Night And Hearing A Lynching And Being Afraid The House Would Burn Down.