I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all….

In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play o….

My future depends mostly upon myself..

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are..

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-f….

With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare gave Othello such digni….

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialis….

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and w….

Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top..

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..

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….

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice..

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….

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..