I Wanted To Get Far Away From

Is That What They Call A Vocation, What You Do With Joy As If You Had Fire In Your Heart, The Devil In Your Body?

Since I Personified The Savage On The Stage, I Tried To Be As Civilized As Possible In Daily Life.

Art Is An Elastic Sort Of Love.

To Realise Our Dreams We Must Decide To Wake Up.

Friends, To Me For Years St. Louis Represented A City Of Fear... Humiliation... Misery And Terror... A City Where In The Eyes Of The White Man A Negro Should Know His Place And Had Better Stay In It.