Melba Liston UCLA Center for Oral History Research, Library Special Collections, Charles E Young Research Library, UCLA Interview Block 688 (Q17903)

I guess I didn't know whether it was good or bad, but it was going on, so I had to go along with it. It was good for getting us out of the place over there on Central Avenue. But it was bad for a lot of reasons, too. It was good and bad. The thing is, you've got no place in this white world. So that's the other side of it, you know. You get a place, and then you just make it. I mean, some make ...