It is my aim to reach and talk to the heart of each individual audience, taking it into my confidence very much as I would a person.

When I am speaking to an audience, I care little for how what I am saying is going to sound in the newspapers, or to another audience, or to an individual.

At the time, the audience before me absorbs all my sympathy, thought, and energy.
Early in the morning a committee called to escort me to my place in the procession which was to march to the Exposition grounds.

In this procession were prominent coloured citizens in carriages, as well as several Negro military organizations.

I noted that the Exposition officials seemed to go out of their way to see that all of the coloured people in the procession were properly placed and properly treated.