We learned about people like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington and Marian Anderson. Harriet Tubman was my favorite.
There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.
New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
We were churchgoing people.
That was worse than stealing, you know, talking back to a white person.
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.
I remember during Easter one year, I was to get a pair of black patent shoes but you could only get them from the white stores, so my mother drew the outline of my feet on a brown paper bag in order to get the closest size, because we weren't allowed to go in the store to try them on.
When you've been abused daily and you see people humiliated and harassed, you just get tired of it.
For African-Americans, it's still going to be - some people say double hard - I'd say four times as hard. Be an opportunist. Take advantage of your resources, because the only way to win is with education, self-esteem, having value in yourself.
I was ostracized by my community.
I left the South in 1963 and was living in Morristown, New Jersey, when the March on Washington took place, so I watched it on television instead.
I'd like my grandchildren to be able to see that their grandmother stood up for something, a long time ago.
I never swore when I was young.
I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
I was about four years old the first time I ever saw what happened when you acted up to whites.
