We became friends in the late '50s, just as the United States was poised to make its quantum leap into the future just as Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and other Southerners were girding themselves for the second civil war in one hundred years and just when Malcolm X was giving voice to the anger in the streets and in the minds of Northern Black city folks. ♪ Sometimes I feel ♪ ♪ Like a motherless child ♪ ♪ Sometimes I feel ♪ ♪ Like a motherless child ♪ ♪ Sometimes I feel ♪ ♪ Like a motherless child ♪ ♪ A long way ♪ ♪ From home ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -I first met Jim when he and I and the world were young enough to believe ourselves independently salvageable. It was so outrageous, you could not go any further, you know. You must have said to yourself, "Gee, how disadvantaged can I get?" Now, when you were starting out as a writer, you were Black, impoverished, homosexual. ♪♪ ♪♪ -There are days - this is one of them.when you wonder what your role is in this country and what your future is in it.įrom my point of view, no label, no slogan, no party, and no skin color, and, indeed, no religion, is more important than the human being.
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