New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
CLAUDETTE COLVINWhat do we have to do to make God love us?’ I always grew up with that. I always used to go around thinking that. ‘God loved the white people better. He must’ve. That’s why he made them white.’
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The light-skinned girls always thought they were better looking. So did the teachers, too. That meant most of the dark complexion ones didn’t like themselves.
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I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.
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We were churchgoing people.
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I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.
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I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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I never swore when I was young.
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Rosa Parks wasn’t the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.
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I wanted to be an attorney. My mother would say I never stopped talking. I always had a lot of questions to ask, and I was never satisfied with the answer. A lot of things I wasn’t satisfied by.
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That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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I was about four years old the first time I ever saw what happened when you acted up to whites.
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A lot has changed since I grew up, but there’s still a long way to go. I don’t think we can move forward with Donald Trump as the president. There’s a disconnect there. We don’t want to regress, we want progress.
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I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
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There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn’t even go into the same restaurants.
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When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren’t even considered human.
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I was ostracized by my community.
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