The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.

The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it. In the first place, most white southern Baptists can't preach, their intentions are not that good and we make a different joyful noise unto the Lord than white people. When we say, "Lord Jesus, personal savior", we may not mean the same thing as what they mean.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.

All life is a test one way or the other.