I Used To Get Letters

And We Love To Dance, Especially That New One Called The Civil War Twist. The Northern Part Of You Stands Still While The Southern Part Tries To Secede.

We Thought I Was Going To Be A Great Athlete, And We Were Wrong, And I Thought I Was Going To Be A Great Entertainer, And That Wasn't It Either. I'm Going To Be An American Citizen. First Class.

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.

If I Had To Write Down The Most Important People In The History Of This Planet, No.1 Would Be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because He's A White Man Who Said He Would Die For The Cause, Because They Could Take Him, But They Weren't Going To Take His Grandchildren. That Brother Was Beautiful.

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.