t because they like
all those bad things that they are always doing, but only just because
they want to get excited. No Miss Melanctha, you see I am a colored
man myself and I ain't sorry, and I want to see the colored people
being good and careful and always honest and living always just
as regular as can be, and I am sure Miss Melanctha, that that way
everybody can have a good time, and be happy and keep right and be
busy, and not always have to be doing bad things for new ways to get
excited. Yes Miss Melanctha, I certainly do like everything to be
good, and quiet, and I certainly do think that is the best way for all
us colored people. No, Miss Melanctha too, I don't mean this except
only just the way I say it. I ain't got any other meaning Miss
Melanctha, and it's that what I mean when I am saying about being
really good. It ain't Miss Melanctha to be pious and not liking every
kind of people, and I don't say ever Miss Melanctha that when other
kind of people come regular into your life you shouldn't want to know
them always. What I mean Miss Melanctha by what I am always saying
is, you shouldn't try to know everybody just to run around and get
excited. It's that kind of way of doing that I hate so always Miss
Melanctha, and that is so bad for all us colored people. I don't know
as you understand now any better what I mean by what I was just saying
to you. But you certainly do know now Miss Melanctha, that I always
mean it what I say when I am talking."

"Yes I certainly do understand you when you talk so Dr. Campbell.
I certainly do understand now what you mean by what you was always
saying to me. I certainly do understand Dr. Campbell that you mean you
don't believe it's right to love anybody." "Why sure no, yes I do Miss
Melanctha, I certainly do believe strong in loving, and in being good
to everybody, and trying to understand what they all need, to help
them." "Oh I know all about that way of doing Dr. Campbell, but that
certainly ain't the kind of love I mean when I am talking. I mean
real, strong, hot love Dr. Campbell, that makes you do anything for
somebody that loves you." "I don't know much about that kind of
love yet Miss Melanctha. You see it's this way with me always Miss
Melanctha. I am always so busy with my thinking about my work I am
doing and so I don't have time for just fooling, and then too, you see
Miss Melanctha, I really certainly don't ever like to get excited, and
that kind of loving har