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.

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.