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-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
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-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something… — Paul Robeson Copy Share
Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their… — Paul Robeson Copy Share
Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice. — Paul Robeson Copy Share
To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of… — Paul Robeson Copy Share
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… — Paul Robeson Copy Share
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship… — Paul Robeson Copy Share
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive… — Paul Robeson Copy Share
The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external… — Paul Robeson Copy Share
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… — Paul Robeson Copy Share
Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they… — Paul Robeson Copy Share
