People Have Got To Get Together And

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?

But You See Now Baby, Whether You Have A Ph.d., D.d. Or No D, We're In This Bag Together. And Whether You Are From Morehouse Or Nohouse, We,re Still In This Bag Together.

It Is Only When We Speak What Is Right That We Stand A Chance At Night Of Being Blown To Bits In Our Homes. Can We Call This A Free Country, When I Am Afraid To Go To Sleep In My Own Home In Mississippi?... I Might Not Live Two Hours After I Get Back Home, But I Want To Be A Part Of Setting The Negro Free In Mississippi.

My Parents Would Make Huge Crops Of Sometimes 55 To 60 Bales Of Cotton. Being From A Big Family Where There Were 20 Children, It Wasn't Too Hard To Pick That Much Cotton. But My Father, Year After Year, Didn't Get Too Much Money And I Remember He Just Kept Going.

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.