There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.
“I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.”
“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.”