A horse can swim a long while.
Interview with Ed Fields. Interviewed by Rebecca Button. Delaware oral history collection, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware. (1973)
http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/20090 excerpt

A time when girls did not wear pants.
Washington, Claudie. Interview with Claudie Washington, Part 1. Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota, Duluth. (2017)
umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll488:17 excerpt

An alternative to their health center.
Transcript of interview with Byllye Avery, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project oral histories, Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History, SSC MS 00535, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts. (2005)
https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/islandora/object/smith:1342621 excerpt

At the end, we'd have nothing but solid gold.
Interview with Albert Elkins. Interviewed by Leslie Kelen. Interviews with Blacks in Utah, 1982-1988, Ms0453. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah. (2016)
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68w5mdp excerpt

By 1956 I had such a regular clientele.
Gray, Walter, African-American Voices of the Cedar Valley Oral History Project Video with Walter Gray. African-American Voices of the Cedar Valley Oral History Project. 12. (2007)
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/aavcv/12/ excerpt

By second period all hell was breaking loose.
Interview with Joyce Braden Harris. Interviewed by Parvaneh Abbaspour and Heather Oriana Petrocelli. Black United Front Oral History Project. 3. Portland State University, Portland Oregon. (2010)
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15813 excerpt

Call him a jack of all trades.
Interview with Tommie Jewell, Sr. (MA 1963). University of New Mexico, Black Alumni Chapter Oral History Project. Albuquerque, New Mexico. (2015-2016)
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/black_alumni_interviews/11/ excerpt

Do you know where you are?
Transcript of interview with Achebe Betty Powell, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project oral histories, Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History, SSC MS 00535, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts. (2004)
https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/object/smith:1342652 excerpt

Get back, I'll handle her.
Interviews with local blacks, African-American, female, on organizing strikes: Jackson demonstrations and jails. Stanford University Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. (1965)
https://purl.stanford.edu/dt692kf7259 excerpt

God said go to Vegas.
William O'Neill McCurdy oral history interview. OH-03864. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. (2022)
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1nz84f8s excerpt

Got into what we call a hobo jungle.
Interview with Henry Armstrong. Interviewed by Dr. Richard S. Resh, Black Community Leaders Project. Oral History Collection at The State Historical Society of Missouri. (1970)
https://shsmo.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/oral-history/transcripts/s0829/t0019.pdf excerpt

Great big white cotton balls.
Saffold, Millie, African-American Voices of the Cedar Valley Oral History Project Video with Millie Saffold. African-American Voices of the Cedar Valley Oral History Project. 7. (2006)
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/aavcv/7/ excerpt

Had a gun as part of his standard equipment.
Oral history interview with William and Josephine Clement. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (1986)
http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/C-0031/menu.html excerpt

Happy without having to look over your shoulder.
Interview with Elbert "Big Man" Howard. Interviewed by David P Cline, John Melville Bishop, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Santa Rosa, California. (2016).
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655436/ excerpt

He could get them to do anything he wanted.
Oral history interview with anonymous, African-American, female, CORE volunteer, 0281, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. (1965)
https://purl.stanford.edu/hr737vq6089 excerpt

He didn't want to go back South.
Melrose, Arnold and Evelyn-- Ethel Teasdale. Interview with the Bronx African American History Project. BAAHP Digital Archive at Fordham University. (2003)
https://research.library.fordham.edu/baahp_oralhist/291 excerpt

He used to change his religion every week.
Transcript of interview with Frances Beal, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project oral histories, Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History, SSC MS 00535, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts. (2005)
https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/object/smith:1342622 excerpt

He would get more ink if I worked.
Interview with Samuel L. Adams. Interviewed by Calder M. Pickett. Endacott Society Oral History Collection, University of Kansas Alumni Association, Lawrence, Kansas. (2000)
https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-endacott/129 excerpt

He wouldn't put his hands in the commode.
Norman, Vivert, African-American Voices of the Cedar Valley Oral History Project. 13. (2006)
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/aavcv/13 excerpt

Here's a picture of me when I was twelve.
Interview with Dolores Rhinehart and Carl Rhinehart. Interviewed by Ashley Moore, Daniel Gawlowski, Anne Kraemer and Michelle Anderson. Middletown Digital Oral History Collections, Other Side of Middletown Collection. Ball State University. University Libraries. Muncie, Indiana. (2003)
https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/MidOrHis/id/457/rec/3 excerpt

His mother was a full blooded Cherokee indian.
Interview with Albert Elkins. Interviewed by Leslie Kelen. Interviews with Blacks in Utah, 1982-1988, Ms0453. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah. (2016)
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68w5mdp excerpt

Hit him and knocked his glasses off.
Interview with Richmond Belcher. Interviewed by Robert C. Hayden. Robert C. Hayden transcripts of oral history interviews 1977-1991. University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. (1988-1989)
https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll11/id/109/rec/25 excerpt

I am not raising my children in this environment.
Interview with Phyllis Bartleson. Interviewed by Carla Burke and Carrie Kissel. Middletown Digital Oral History Collections, Other Side of Middletown Collection. Ball State University. University Libraries. Muncie, Indiana. (2003)
https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/MidOrHis/id/398/rec/6 excerpt

I could have easily ended up missing.
Interview with D'Army Bailey. Interviewed by David P Cline, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Memphis, Tennessee. (2013).
https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669197/ excerpt

I covered a lot of areas pulling my little wagon.
Interview with Fred Adams. Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (2016)
https://aadl.org/aachm_loh_20161111-fred_adams excerpt

I didn't need the man to come and fix it.
New Jersey Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project Interview with Mildred Arnold. New Jersey State Archives. (1980)
https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3MW2JRW excerpt

I don't agree with violence against anyone.
Interview with Larry Hunter. Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (2018)
https://aadl.org/node/379093 excerpt

I don't have to expose myself.
Browner, Clifford, Interviewee, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Clifford Browner oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia. (2013)
https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669160/ excerpt

I don't know any more than you do.
Interview with Karen Marie Byers. Interviewed by Curtis Nether. Lawrence/Douglas County African American Oral History Interviews. Lawrence/Douglas County, Kansas. (1977)
http://oralhistory.lplks.org/4karen_marie_byers.html excerpt

I don't like that kind of people.
Interview with Clara Watson Pinkman. Interviewed by Helen Conover. Courtesy of The Morristown & Morris Township Library, North Jersey History & Genealogy Center. Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey. (1983)
https://cdm16100.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16100coll4/id/77/rec/3 excerpt

I don't remember Mississippi.
William O'Neill McCurdy Sr. oral history interview. Interviewed by Claytee D White. Transcript of audio. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (2022)
https://special.library.unlv.edu/ark%3A/62930/d1nz84f8s excerpt

I found out right then there weren't any ghosts.
Mansfield African-American Oral History Project, The Crisis at Mansfield. Mansfield Public Library. Mansfield, Texas. (1995)
https://mansfieldcrisis.omeka.net/items/show/61 excerpt

I got a guy, he's a real good boxer.
William O'Neill McCurdy Sr. oral history interview. Interviewed by Claytee D White. Transcript of audio. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (2022)
https://special.library.unlv.edu/ark%3A/62930/d1nz84f8s excerpt

I guess everybody was abandoning farms.
Oral history interview with Cedric Johnson. Spotlighting Oklahoma Oral History Project. Oklahoma Oral History Research Program - Oklahoma State University. (2009)
https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/Spot/id/1111/rec/1 excerpt

I had bought me some real good shoes.
Mansfield African-American Oral History Project, The Crisis at Mansfield. Mansfield Public Library. Mansfield, Texas. (1995)
https://mansfieldcrisis.omeka.net/items/show/61 excerpt

I had theory but I didn't know what it was.
Interview with Don Lee White. Interviewed by Karin Patterson. UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research, the Department of Ethnomusicology, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. (2007)
https://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/catalog/21198-zz00096b97 excerpt

I heard music almost every day.
Interview with John Levy. Interviewed by John Mitchell. Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. (2006)
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/projects/smithsonian-jazz/education/john-levy-oral-history-activity excerpt

I know I'm back on the farm now.
Mansfield African-American Oral History Project, The Crisis at Mansfield. Mansfield Public Library. Mansfield, Texas. (1995)
https://mansfieldcrisis.omeka.net/items/show/61 excerpt

I like the place, it had a charm about it.
Gray, Walter, African-American Voices of the Cedar Valley Oral History Project Video with Walter Gray. African-American Voices of the Cedar Valley Oral History Project. 12. (2007)
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/aavcv/12/ excerpt

I lived with who I thought was my grandmother.
Interview with Don Lee White. Interviewed by Karin Patterson. UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research, the Department of Ethnomusicology, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. (2007)
https://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/catalog/21198-zz00096b97 excerpt

I lost quite a few votes in that race.
Oral History Interview with Richard Arrington. Interview A-0001. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (1974)
https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/playback.html?base_file=A-0001 excerpt

I passed inadvertently.
Black Leadership in Los Angeles: Marnesba Tackett, UCLA Center for Oral History Research. The Online Archive of California, UC Libraries.
https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb8n39p5jk/?brand=oac4 excerpt

I saw maybe five African Americans.
Jackson, Bessie. Interview 1. Interview with the Bronx African American History Project. BAAHP Digital Archive at Fordham University. (2002)
https://research.library.fordham.edu/baahp_oralhist/293/ excerpt

I think she said she was trying to scare him.
William O'Neill McCurdy oral history interview. OH-03864. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. (2022)
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1nz84f8s excerpt

I used to make all of her clothes.
Interview with Ruth G. Waddy, African American artist. Founder of the organization Art West Associated. Interviewed by Karen Anne Mason, University of California, Los Angeles. (1991)
https://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/catalog/21198-zz0008zm60 excerpt

I wanted to convey something.
Interview with Elbert "Big Man" Howard. Interviewed by David P Cline, John Melville Bishop, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Santa Rosa, California. (2016).
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655436/ excerpt

I wanted to know what The Crisis was
Mildred Bond Roxborough oral history interview conducted by Julian Bond and U.S Civil Rights History Project. New York, New York. (2010)
https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669101/ excerpt

I wasn't about to vote in the last election.
Interview with Welms, African-American, male, CORE staff. Stanford University Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Congress of Racial Equality. (1965)
https://purl.stanford.edu/sf209js1250 excerpt

I'm not here to be liked.
Interview with William Waddell. Interviewed by Kathryn Takara. Oral Histories of African Americans collection. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library, Honolulu, Hawaii. (1988)
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30067 excerpt

If we could do it again, we wouldn't.
Interview with Nancy Nilon. Interviewed by Margot Gage. Transcribed by Sandy Adler. The Voices of Black Women of Boulder County Oral History Project. Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder, Colorado. OH1311. (2001)
https://localhistory.boulderlibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A31148 excerpt

If you didn't have that red card, you didn't work there.
Interview with Joseph Billups. Interviewed by Herbert Hill, Shelton Tappes, Roberta McBride. Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs. Wayne State University. Detroit, Michigan. (1967)
https://rs4.reuther.wayne.edu/OralHistories/Projects/LOH002210/LOH002210_OH_003.pdf excerpt

It destroyed quite a few of the Black businesses.
Oral History Interview with Floyd Adams. Interview R-0168. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (2002)
https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/R-0168/menu.html excerpt

It inspires one. It lends you courage.
Interview with Ruth G. Waddy, African American artist. Founder of the organization Art West Associated. Interviewed by Karen Anne Mason, University of California, Los Angeles. (1991)
https://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/catalog/21198-zz0008zm60 excerpt

It never affected us personally until we moved to Charlotte.
Oral History Interview with Diane English. Interview U-0183. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (2006)
https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/U-0183/menu.html excerpt

It would sweeten the soil.
Norman, Vivert, African-American Voices of the Cedar Valley Oral History Project. 13. (2006)
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/aavcv/13 excerpt

Join the party.
Interview with Howard Johnson. Interviewed by Kathryn Takara. Oral Histories of African Americans collection. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library, Honolulu, Hawaii. (1988)
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30063 excerpt

Learn how to live in two worlds.
RG A14 Fannie Jeffrey Oral History. Interviewed by Patricia Page. Bishop Payne Library at Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia. (2003)
https://vtsbpl.omeka.net/items/show/475 excerpt

Life began to be much more exciting for us.
Interview with Mary Dollison. Interviewed by Janae Troyer. Ball State University. University Libraries. Archives and Special Collections. (2015)
https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/BSUAAAlmOrH/id/14/rec/9 excerpt

Maybe they're going to help us.
Transcript of interview with Achebe Betty Powell, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project oral histories, Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History, SSC MS 00535, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, Massachusetts. (2004)
https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/object/smith:1342652 excerpt

My father didn't want to sell the horse.
African-American Artists of Los Angeles: Cecil Fergerson, UCLA Center for Oral History Research. The Online Archive of California, UC Libraries.
https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb7h4nb803/?brand=oac4 excerpt

My mother was left with three sons.
Interview with Hurley Goodall. Interviewed by Warren Vander Hill. Middletown Digital Oral History Collections, Muncie Labor Oral History Project Collection. Ball State University. University Libraries. Muncie, Indiana. (2005)
https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/MidOrHis/id/512/rec/1 excerpt

One or two people around there that ran everything.
Interview with Harry Gumby. Interviewed by Deborah Dandridge. World War II: The African American Experience collection, RH MS 1439. Digital collections, University of Kansas Libraries. Lawrence, Kansas. (2011)
https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-wwii/13 excerpt

Our skin was similar to the earth.
Interview with Ben Caldwell. Interviewed by David P Cline, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Los Angeles, California. (2013).
https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669176/ excerpt

People come from everywhere to see that whale.
Interview with Ed Fields. Interviewed by Rebecca Button. Delaware oral history collection, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware. (1973)
http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/20090 excerpt

People who definitely have a strong connection.
Interview with Rita Ann Turfley Powdrell (BA 1968). University of New Mexico, Black Alumni Chapter Oral History Project. Albuquerque, New Mexico. (2015-2016)
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/black_alumni_interviews/10/ excerpt

Scrambling to get those cards.
Thorpe, A. L. Georgia Black Fisherman with Annie Lee Thorpe by Monet Murphy. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce) Voices Oral History Archives. (2010)
https://voices.nmfs.noaa.gov/annie-lee-thorpe excerpt

She always had a tape measure around her neck.
Interview with Georgia Hale. Interviewed by Barbara Dickerman. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Springfield, Illinois. (2007)
https://presidentlincoln.illinois.gov/Resources/ed938fa1-5c40-4300-b2f4-1c5bbf933115/download excerpt

She could throw and pitch and catch.
Interview with Larry Hunter. Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (2018)
https://aadl.org/node/379093 excerpt

She had an audience.
Sylvia Drew Ivie, interviewed by Alva Moore Stevenson for Center for Oral History Research, University of California, Los Angeles. (2007)
https://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/catalog/21198-zz00096t8g?counter=8 excerpt

She used to carry a small pistol in her pocket.
Interview with Danny Mae Reeves. Interviewed by Curtis Nether, a Lawrence High School history teacher. Lawrence-Douglas County African American Oral History Project. Douglas County, Kansas. (1977)
http://oralhistory.lplks.org/4danny_reeves.html excerpt

Slaves, Indians and paupers.
Interview with Father Moses Berry. Interviewed by Samuel Knox and Tom Peters. Route 66 Oral History Project (M080). Missouri State University, Special Collections and Archives. (2014)
https://cdm17307.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/rt66/id/258/ excerpt

Somebody tells a tale and it carries on and on.
Interview with Harry Gumby. Interviewed by Deborah Dandridge. World War II: The African American Experience collection, RH MS 1439. Digital collections, University of Kansas Libraries. Lawrence, Kansas. (2011)
https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-wwii/13 excerpt

Staying in your place, so to speak.
Browner, Clifford, Interviewee, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Clifford Browner oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Albany, Georgia. (2013)
https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669160/ excerpt

Summertime we spent swimming in the Huron River.
Interview with Fred Adams. Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (2016)
https://aadl.org/aachm_loh_20161111-fred_adams excerpt

Tell him to come home where he belonged.
New Jersey Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project Interview with Mildred Arnold. New Jersey State Archives. (1980)
https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3MW2JRW excerpt

That little lady was tough.
Oral history interview with Viola Turner. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (1979)
http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/C-0015/menu.html excerpt

That's how my mother's folks got here, over the Trail of Tears.
Oral history interview with Cedric Johnson. Spotlighting Oklahoma Oral History Project. Oklahoma Oral History Research Program - Oklahoma State University. (2009)
https://cdm17279.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/Spot/id/1111/rec/1 excerpt

That's the L.A. that I came here for.
Interview with Ben Caldwell. Interviewed by David P Cline, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Los Angeles, California. (2013).
https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669176/ excerpt

That's too close, but I'll go.
interview with Pauline A. Young. Interviewed by Yetta Chaiken. Delaware oral history collection, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware. (1977)
http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/20323 excerpt

That's what I'm trying not to say.
Interview with Vivian Sanks-King. Interviewed by Gilbert Cohen. Newark and Rutgers in the 1960s and 1970s collection. Rutgers University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. New Jersey. (1991)
https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/40868/ excerpt

The conductor don't run the bar.
Interview with Richmond Belcher. Interviewed by Robert C. Hayden. Robert C. Hayden transcripts of oral history interviews 1977-1991. University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. (1988-1989)
https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll11/id/109/rec/25 excerpt

The further I went, the more angry I got.
Brown, Harold K., Interviewee, David P Cline, John Melville Bishop, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Harold K. Brown oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in San Diego, California. (2016)
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655432/ excerpt

The unions are not employing Negro women.
Interview with Mrs. Albrier Tape. Interviewed by Herbert Hill. Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs. Wayne State University. Detroit, Michigan. (1968)
https://rs4.reuther.wayne.edu/OralHistories/Projects/LOH002210/LOH002210_OH_001.pdf excerpt

Their problems are out in the open.
Interview with Welms, African-American, male, CORE staff. Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Congress of Racial Equality. (1965)
https://purl.stanford.edu/sf209js1250 excerpt

There was a problem with culture that was manufactured.
Interview with Rev. Arnold Townsend. Interviewed Courtney Francois, Alex Momirov and Molly Miranker, High school students at the Urban School of San Francisco. Telling Their Stories Oral History Archives Project. (2007)
https://www.tellingstories.org/fillmore/townsend_arnold excerpt

There was always a jungle number in the show.
Interview with Howard Johnson. Interviewed by Kathryn Takara. Oral Histories of African Americans collection. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library, Honolulu, Hawaii. (1988)
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30063 excerpt

There was always somebody extra living at our house.
Interview with Leah Bass-Baylis. Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (2022)
https://aadl.org/aadl_aachm_20220727-leah_bass_baylis excerpt

These kids never left Charlestown.
Interview with Valerie Shelley. Interviewed by Kimberley Langhorn. Transcribed by Ros Everdell. Neighborhood Voices: Stories of the Families of the Dudley Street Neighborhood of Boston. University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. (2018)
https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll11/id/74/rec/24 excerpt

These people haven't done nothing to me.
Interview with Kenneth Newman. Interviewed by Curtis Nether. Lawrence/Douglas County African American Oral History Interviews. Lawrence/Douglas County, Kansas. (1977)
http://oralhistory.lplks.org/4kenneth_newman.html excerpt

They became Candelarias and Naranjos.
Interview with Rita Ann Turfley Powdrell (BA 1968). University of New Mexico, Black Alumni Chapter Oral History Project. Albuquerque, New Mexico. (2015-2016)
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/black_alumni_interviews/10/ excerpt

They blew the engine out on the 1935 Chrysler.
Interview with Kernan H. Bagley. Interviewed by Brent E. Turvey. Oregon Historical Society. Library. Portland, Oregon. (1993)
https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/oral-history-interview-with-kernan-h-bagley-transcript excerpt

They cut the ice from the river.
Interview with Ora Ethel Newman. Interviewed by Curtis Nether, a Lawrence High School history teacher. Lawrence-Douglas County African American Oral History Project. Douglas County, Kansas. (1977)
http://oralhistory.lplks.org/4ora_newman.html excerpt

They didn't ask her a lot of questions.
Interview with Jim Davis. Interviewed by Andrea Abrams. Pathways to Diversity collection. Centre College Special Collections and Archives. Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. (2018)
https://omeka.centre.edu/s/pathways/item/1398#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0 excerpt

They figured he got a White man's job.
Washington, Claudie. Interview with Claudie Washington, Part 1. Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota, Duluth. (2017)
umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll488:17 excerpt

They followed the crops.
Interview with Tommie Jewell, Sr. (MA 1963). University of New Mexico, Black Alumni Chapter Oral History Project. Albuquerque, New Mexico. (2015-2016)
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/black_alumni_interviews/11/ excerpt

They got in between us and the policeman.
Interview with Nancy Nilon. Interviewed by Margot Gage. Transcribed by Sandy Adler. The Voices of Black Women of Boulder County Oral History Project. Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder, Colorado. OH1311. (2001)
https://localhistory.boulderlibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A31148 excerpt

They knew I was a Communist.
Interview with Howard Johnson. Interviewed by Kathryn Takara. Oral Histories of African Americans collection. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library, Honolulu, Hawaii. (1988)
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30063 excerpt

They need to see someone of color that is glad to see them.
Interview with Valerie Shelley. Interviewed by Kimberley Langhorn. Transcribed by Ros Everdell. Neighborhood Voices: Stories of the Families of the Dudley Street Neighborhood of Boston. University of Massachusetts Boston, Joseph P. Healey Library. (2018)
https://openarchives.umb.edu/digital/collection/p15774coll11/id/74/rec/24 excerpt

They played Dixie at every football game.
Interview with Jim Davis. Interviewed by Andrea Abrams. Pathways to Diversity collection. Centre College Special Collections and Archives. Centre College, Danville, Kentucky. (2018)
https://omeka.centre.edu/s/pathways/item/1398#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0 excerpt

They see we're willing to fight.
Interview with Federick K. Foote. Interviewed by Dane Nicolas. California State University, Sacramento, Public History program. Sacramento, California. (2021)
https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/CDD/Planning/AAHF/CSUS-Oral-History-Transcripts_with_TOC.pdf excerpt

They thought they would never go overseas.
Interview with Danny Mae Reeves. Interviewed by Curtis Nether, a Lawrence High School history teacher. Lawrence-Douglas County African American Oral History Project. Douglas County, Kansas. (1977)
http://oralhistory.lplks.org/4danny_reeves.html excerpt

They were just farmers.
Interview with Joseph Billups. Interviewed by Herbert Hill, Shelton Tappes, Roberta McBride. Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs. Wayne State University. Detroit, Michigan. (1967)
https://rs4.reuther.wayne.edu/OralHistories/Projects/LOH002210/LOH002210_OH_003.pdf excerpt

They weren't offering any immediacy.
Interview with Vickie Donaldson. Interviewed by Gilbert Cohen. Newark and Rutgers in the 1960s and 1970s collection. Rutgers University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. New Jersey. (1991)
https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/40843/ excerpt

Thirty-six hundred dollars for forty acres.
Interview with Kernan H. Bagley. Interviewed by Brent E. Turvey. Oregon Historical Society. Library. Portland, Oregon. (1993)
https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/oral-history-interview-with-kernan-h-bagley-transcript excerpt

This is a massive indictment.
Interview with Federick K. Foote. Interviewed by Dane Nicolas. California State University, Sacramento, Public History program. Sacramento, California. (2021)
https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/CDD/Planning/AAHF/CSUS-Oral-History-Transcripts_with_TOC.pdf excerpt

This town doesn't want them.
Interview with Kenneth Newman. Interviewed by Curtis Nether. Lawrence/Douglas County African American Oral History Interviews. Lawrence/Douglas County, Kansas. (1977)
http://oralhistory.lplks.org/4kenneth_newman.html excerpt

We all ate fish and seafood every day.
Thorpe, A. L. Georgia Black Fisherman with Annie Lee Thorpe by Monet Murphy. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce) Voices Oral History Archives. (2010)
https://voices.nmfs.noaa.gov/annie-lee-thorpe excerpt

We always had fresh fish.
Interview with Clara Watson Pinkman. Interviewed by Helen Conover. Courtesy of The Morristown & Morris Township Library, North Jersey History & Genealogy Center. Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey. (1983)
https://cdm16100.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16100coll4/id/77/rec/3 excerpt

We didn't have the volatility back then.
Interview with Joe Debbs. Interviewed by Harvey Jones. California State University, Sacramento. Sacramento, California. (2021)
https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/CDD/Planning/AAHF/CSUS-Oral-History-Transcripts_with_TOC.pdf excerpt

We grew almost everything we ate.
Jackson, Bessie. Interview 1. Interview with the Bronx African American History Project. BAAHP Digital Archive at Fordham University. (2002)
https://research.library.fordham.edu/baahp_oralhist/293/ excerpt

We had the throw-away books from the White schools.
Interview with Bobbie Doré Foster. Interviewed by Jan Dilg. Oregon Historical Society. Library. Portland, Oregon. (2017)
https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/oral-history-interview-with-bobbie-dore-foster-transcript excerpt

We were too dark to stay there.
Interview with Anna Mae Weems. African-American Voices of the Cedar Valley Oral History Project. 20. UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa. (2006)
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/aavcv/20/ excerpt

We won't have a school that we control anymore.
Interview with Federick K. Foote. Interviewed by Dane Nicolas. California State University, Sacramento, Public History program. Sacramento, California. (2021)
https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/CDD/Planning/AAHF/CSUS-Oral-History-Transcripts_with_TOC.pdf excerpt

We'd just quilt all night.
Interview with Annie Anderson Thorne and Annie Thorne Babcock (btvnc04037). Interviewed by Rhonda Mawhood, Princeville, North Carolina. Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South Digital Collection, John Hope Franklin Research Center, Duke University Libraries. (1993)
https://repository.duke.edu/dc/behindtheveil/45477153-3fa3-446f-90a8-af8c3beded48 excerpt

Whatever he did I did, I copied everything.
Washington, Claudie. Interview with Claudie Washington, Part 1. Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota, Duluth. (2017)
umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll488:17 excerpt

White kids, Black kids, Asian kids, Mexican kids.
Interview with Joe Debbs. Interviewed by Harvey Jones. California State University, Sacramento. Sacramento, California. (2021)
https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/CDD/Planning/AAHF/CSUS-Oral-History-Transcripts_with_TOC.pdf excerpt

Would have been better to just stand up and say no.
Interview with Rev. Arnold Townsend. Interviewed Courtney Francois, Alex Momirov and Molly Miranker, High school students at the Urban School of San Francisco. Telling Their Stories Oral History Archives Project. (2007)
https://www.tellingstories.org/fillmore/townsend_arnold excerpt

You could wear them on either foot.
Interview with Kenneth Newman. Interviewed by Curtis Nether, a Lawrence High School history teacher. Lawrence-Douglas County African American Oral History Project. Douglas County, Kansas. (1977)
http://oralhistory.lplks.org/4kenneth_newman.html excerpt

You increase the density of the area.
Oral History Interview with Floyd Adams. Interview R-0168. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (82002)
https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/R-0168/menu.html excerpt

You might also encounter some horrible things.
Interview with Samuel L. Adams. Interviewed by Calder M. Pickett. Endacott Society Oral History Collection, University of Kansas Alumni Association, Lawrence, Kansas. (2000)
https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-endacott/129 excerpt

You owed that to the family of man.
Interview with William Waddell. Interviewed by Kathryn Takara. Oral Histories of African Americans collection. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library, Honolulu, Hawaii. (1988)
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30067 excerpt

You're not supposed to like your roommate.
Interview with Nancy Nilon. Interviewed by Margot Gage. Transcribed by Sandy Adler. The Voices of Black Women of Boulder County Oral History Project. Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder, Colorado. OH1311. (2001)
https://localhistory.boulderlibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A31148 excerpt

You're not taking him around the hot iron.
Interview with Hurley Goodall. Interviewed by Warren Vander Hill. Middletown Digital Oral History Collections, Muncie Labor Oral History Project Collection. Ball State University. University Libraries. Muncie, Indiana. (2005)
https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/MidOrHis/id/512/rec/1 excerpt

Youth is wasted on the young.
Interview with Father Moses Berry. Interviewed by Samuel Knox and Tom Peters. Route 66 Oral History Project (M080). Missouri State University, Special Collections and Archives. (2014)
https://cdm17307.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/rt66/id/258/ excerpt