One Dance Had Made Me The Most

Friends, To Me For Years St. Louis Represented A City Of Fear... Humiliation... Misery And Terror... A City Where In The Eyes Of The White Man A Negro Should Know His Place And Had Better Stay In It.

I Wanted To Get Far Away From Those Who Believed In Cruelty, So Then I Went To France, A Land Of True Freedom, Democracy, Equality And Fraternity.

I Was A Devil In Other Countries, And I Was A Little Devil In America, Too.

I Have Walked Into The Palaces Of Kings And Queens And Into The Houses Of Presidents. And Much More. But I Could Not Walk Into A Hotel In America And Get A Cup Of Coffee, And That Made Me Mad.

Oh, You Young People Act Like Old Men. You Have No Fun.