My Family Was So Poor We Were

You Catch Any White Man Off Guard In Here Right Now, You Catch Him Off Guard And Ask Him What He Is, He Doesn't Say He's An American. He Either Tells You He's Irish, Or He's Italian, Or He's German, If You Catch Him Off Guard And He Doesn't Know What You're Up To. And Even Though He Was Born Here, He'll Tell You He's Italian. Well, If He's Italian, You And I Are African Even Though We Were Born Here.

[white Men] Has The Audacity To Call Himself Even The "leader Of The Free World" While He Has A Country That Can't Even Give The Basic Human Rights To Over Twenty-two Million Of Its Citizens. This Is Aud-, This Is, This Takes Audacity; This Takes Nerve. So It Is This Attitude Today That's Causing The Americans To Be Condemned.

My Alma Mater Was Books, A Good Library... I Could Spend The Rest Of My Life Reading, Just Satisfying My Curiosity.

Just As A Tree Without Roots Is Dead, A People Without History Or Cultural Roots Also Becomes A Dead People.

You Don't Do Anything To Further Your Stay Aboard A Ship That You See Is Going To Go Down To The Bottom Of The Ocean.