It was just a matter of survival... of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl and hearing the Ku Klux Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
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