A Black Woman's Body Was Never Hers

I Think There Will Be Great Leaders Emerging From The State Of Mississippi. The People That Have The Experience To Know And The People Not Interested In Letting Somebody Pat You On The Back And Tell Us "i Think It Is Right." And It Is Very Important For Us Not To Accept A Compromise And After I Got Back To Mississippi, People There Said It Was The Most Important Step That Had Been Taken.

If I Fall, I Will Fall Five-feet Four-inches Forward In The Fight For Freedom.

Our Foreparents Were Mostly Brought From West Africa. We Were Brought To America And Our Foreparents Were Sold; White People Bo Ught Them; White People Changed Their Names My Maiden Name Is Supposed To Be Townsend, But Really, What Is My Maiden Name? What Is My Name?

Christianity Is Being Concerned About [others], Not Building A Million-dollar Church While People Are Starving Right Around The Corner. Christ Was A Revolutionary Person, Out There Where It Was Happening. That's What God Is All About, And That's Where I Get My Strength.

White Americans Today Don't Know What In The World To Do Because When They Put Us Behind Them, That's Where They Made Their Mistake... They Put Us Behind Them, And We Watched Every Move They Made.