Never To Forget Where We

Not Only Have We Paid The Price With Our Names In Ink, But We Have Also Paid In Blood. And They Can't Say That Black People Can't Be Intelligent, Because Going Back To Africa, In Guinea, There Are Almost 4 Million People There And What He, President [sekou] Toure, Is Doing To Educate The People: As Long As The French People Had It They Weren't Doing A Thing That Is Being Done Now.

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.

... Some Of My People Could Have Been Left [in Africa] And Are Living There. And I Can't Understand Them And They Don't Know Me And I Don't Know Them Because All We Had Was Taken Away From Us. And I Became Kind Of Angry; I Felt The Anger Of Why This Had To Happen To Us. We Were So Stripped And Robbed Of Our Background, We Wind Up With Nothing.

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."

I Guess If I'd Had Any Sense, I'd Have Been A Little Scared [to Register To Vote] - But What Was The Point Of Being Scared? The Only Thing They Could Do Was Kill Me, And It Kinda Seemed Like They'd Been Trying To Do That A Little Bit At A Time Since I Could Remember.