When You Know My Love, My Love

Classism And Greed Are Making Insignificant All The Other Kinds Of Isms.

I Don't Want To Have My Children Have To Get Dressed Up To Go Out To Say Good Morning And Deserve To Live Among Some Other People. I Want To Be Able To Be Free And Take For Granted That My Neighbors Like Me And I Like Them.

We Both Grew Up In The Atmosphere Of Struggle, Both Ossie And Me, ... I Come Out Of Harlem And Harlem Comes Out Of Me - Wailing Police Sirens And Street Parties, Rumors And Landlords, That Cultural, Spiritual Scene. And Ossie Came Up From The South, Where Struggle And Dying Were Part Of Everyday Life. That Is Who We Are.

That We Arrived At Fifty Years Together Is Due As Much To Luck As To Love, And A Talent For Knowing, When We Stumble, Where To Fall, And How To Get Up Again.

When You Know My Love, My Love Will Warm You.