There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn’t even go into the same restaurants.
CLAUDETTE COLVINNew York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
More Claudette Colvin Quotes
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I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.
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Being dragged off that bus was worth it just to see Barack Obama become president, because so many others gave their lives and didn’t get to see it, and I thank God for letting me see it.
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When you’ve been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.
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I wanted the young African-American girls also on the bus to know that they had a right to be there, because they had paid their fare just like the white passengers.
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I’ve always told my children that once they go out into the world, they must have two heads and two minds: one to keep grounded, the other to deal with corporate America.
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A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no way you are going to get your hair that straight, especially in the summer.
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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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What 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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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’d like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.
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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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New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
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That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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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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