Occupation: Singer Birth: April 9, 1898 Death: January 23, 1976
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive ….
This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born an….
I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world..
The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever..
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Ne….
I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They are not-in Montgomery. Tha….
The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice..
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-….
Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon it will be….
In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African..
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond mak….
Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may….
Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. T….
I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath the….
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage..
Freedom is a hard-bought thing..
The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery..
To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every….
Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near..
I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied ….
Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause..