I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.
People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
