I Have Walked Into The Palaces Of

When I Was A Child And They Burned Me Out Of My Home, I Was Frightened And I Ran Away. Eventually I Ran Far Away. It Was To A Place Called France. Many Of You Have Been There, And Many Have Not. But I Must Tell You, Ladies And Gentlemen, In That Country I Never Feared. It Was Like A Fairyland Place.

One Day I Realized I Was Living In A Country Where I Was Afraid To Be Black. It Was Only A Country For White People. Not Black. So I Left. I Had Been Suffocating In The United States... A Lot Of Us Left, Not Because We Wanted To Leave, But Because We Couldn't Stand It Anymore... I Felt Liberated In Paris.

I Wasn't Really Naked. I Simply Didn't Have Any Clothes On.

We've Got To Show That Blacks And Whites Are Treated Equally In The Army. Otherwise, What's The Point Of Waging War On Hitler?

To Realise Our Dreams We Must Decide To Wake Up.