Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.
“If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.”
“It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store.”