Every Holiday On The Calendar,

I Never Thought I'd See The Day That I Would See White Folks As Frightened, Or More So, Than Black Folks Was During The Civil Rights Movement When We Was In Mississippi.

We Used To Root For The Indians Against The Cavalry, Because We Didn't Think It Was Fair In The History Books That When The Cavalry Won It Was A Great Victory, And When The Indians Won It Was A Massacre.

I Was Born And Raised In St. Louis, And This Little Town, Eight Blocks Away, Place No One Ever Heard Of, A Black Man There Commands The Attention Of The World For Months? That Ain't My World.

When I First Broke Through, There Was Only Nbc, Cbs And Abc, And They Had News In The Morning And In The Evening - There Wasn't No 24-hour News.

There's A God Force Inside Of You That Gives You A Will To Live.