I Was In Jail When

With The People, For The People, By The People. I Crack Up When I Hear It; I Say, With The Handful, For The Handful, By The Handful, Cause That's What Really Happens.

I Met One Child There Eleven Years Old, Speaking Three Languages [in Guinea]. He Could Speak English, French And Malinke. Speaking My Language Actually Better Than I Could. And This Hypocrisy - They Tell Us Here In America [ That Black People Can't Be Intelligent].

I Saw In Chicago, On The Street Where I Was Visiting My Sister-in-law, This "urban Renewal" And It Means One Thing: "negro Removal." But They Want To Tear The Homes Down And Put A Parking Lot There. Where Are Those People Going? Where Will They Go? And As Soon As Negroes Take To The Street Demonstrating, One Hears People Say, "they Shouldn't Have Done It." The World Is Looking At America And It Is Really Beginning To Show Up For What It Is Really Like. "go Tell It On The Mountain." We Can No Longer Ignore This, That America Is Not "the Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave."

My Parents Tried So Hard To Do What They Could To Keep Us In School, But School Didn't Last But Four Months Out Of The Year And Most Of The Time We Didn't Have Clothes To Wear.

When I Liberate Others, I Liberate Myself.