Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
“What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.”
“Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is.”