You Must Get An Education. You Must

A Violinist Had A Violin, A Painter His Palette. All I Had Was Myself. I Was The Instrument That I Must Care For.

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 Did Take The Blows [of Life], But I Took Them With My Chin Up, In Dignity, Because I So Profoundly Love And Respect Humanity.

Let Us Stop Saying 'white Americans' And 'colored Americans,' Let Us Try Once And For All Saying... Americans. Let Human Beings Be Equal On Earth As In Heaven.

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?