I'm not afraid to die. I'm looking forward to it. I know the Lord has His arms wrapped around this big sparrow.

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

I am an isolationist.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.