Freedom on My Mind (1994)

Curtis Hayes: Self

Quotes 

• Curtis Hayes : You knew couldn't look at white women - look at them in the eye - without gettin' in trouble.

  L.C. Dorsey : 'Cause you could be lynched for eye rape, which was really something that people believed in - that you were looking at a woman in a way that indicated that you had bad intentions toward her.

• Curtis Hayes : So, the excitement was this feeling of camaraderie, this knowing that you have somebody wit'cha who was puttin' their life on the line, just like you and the belief that you are invincible. The belief that your cause was right.

• Curtis Hayes : I always felt inferior - to the northern students. Personally, I thought they were smarter than we were. I thought - and they thought they were smarter than we were. I knew we knew more about Mississippi than they did. But, they had the ability to carry out these long analysis, intellectual discussions about our environment. That seemed like a foreign language to us.