Sex Was A Pleasurable Form Of Exercise,

The Things We Truly Love Stay With Us Always, Locked In Our Hearts As Long As Life Remains.

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.

Since I Personified The Savage On The Stage, I Tried To Be As Civilized As Possible In Daily Life.

You Must Get An Education. You Must Go To School, And You Must Learn To Protect Yourself. And You Must Learn To Protect Yourself With The Pen, And Not The Gun.

I Ran Away From St. Louis, And Then I Ran Away From The United States, Because Of That Terror Of Discrimination.