Occupation: Singer Birth: March 1, 1927
My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family, who are agriculturalists, who we….
Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition..
Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that resistance. I t….
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls ….
We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees.
Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in.
Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just abso….
I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis for our ….
I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil..
Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear,….
Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. If a black is a ty….
I come from a sense of struggle, a sense of using the instruments that were given to me to manipulate the environment in which I found myself, and jo….
I became an anti-fascist, and the more I saw what was happening to the peoples of Europe, the Jews, the more I saw the deep cruelty and inhumanity of….
From the point of view of the poor, the hungry, the disenfranchised, the wretched of the Earth... there will never be peace until their condition has….
I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity brough….
I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I go and find the environment of ….
I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people r….
If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you ….
The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder….
I don't know what America has really learned. We are too quick to do what's expedient on behalf of our culture of greed and hedonism. We're quite pre….
I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor..