I Wasn't Really Naked. I Simply Didn't

One Day I Realized I Was Living In A Country Where I Was Afraid To Be Black. It Was Only A Country For White People. Not Black. So I Left. I Had Been Suffocating In The United States... A Lot Of Us Left, Not Because We Wanted To Leave, But Because We Couldn't Stand It Anymore... I Felt Liberated In Paris.

All My Life, I Have Maintained That The People Of The World Can Learn To Live Together In Peace If They Are Not Brought Up In Prejudice.

I Have Two Loves: My Country And Paris.

My People Have A Country Of Their Own To Go To If They Choose... Africa... But, This America Belongs To Them Just As Much As It Does To Any Of The White Race... In Some Ways Even More So, Because They Gave The Sweat Of Their Brow And Their Blood In Slavery So That Many Parts Of America Could Become Prosperous And Recognized In The World.

We've Got To Show That Blacks And Whites Are Treated Equally In The Army. Otherwise, What's The Point Of Waging War On Hitler?