Never To Forget Where We Came From

White Americans Today Don't Know What In The World To Do Because When They Put Us Behind Them, That's Where They Made Their Mistake... They Put Us Behind Them, And We Watched Every Move They Made.

We Didn't Come All The Way Up Here To Compromise For No More Than We’d Gotten Here. We Didn't Come All This Way For No Two Seats, 'cause All Of Us Is Tired.

Actually, Some Of The Things I Experienced As A Child Still Linger On; What The White Man Has Done To The Black People In The South!

A White Man Killed The Mules And Our Cows That Knocked Us Right Back Down. And Things Got So Tough Then I Began To Wish I Was White.

[my Mother] Tried So Hard To Make Life Easy For Us. Those Are The Things That Forced Me To Try To Do Something Different And When This Movement Came To Mississippi I Still Feel It Is One Of The Greatest Things That Ever Happened Because Only A Person Living In The State Of Mississippi Knows What It Is Like To Suffer; Knows What It Is Like To Be Hungry; Knows What It Is Like To Have No Clothing To Wear.