Harry Belafonte

The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush…

— Harry Belafonte

Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the…

— Harry Belafonte

I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.

— Harry Belafonte

When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I…

— Harry Belafonte

I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity…

— Harry Belafonte

Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

— Harry Belafonte

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the…

— Harry Belafonte

Carmen Jones was the first all-Negro film that became a great box-office success. It established the fact that pictures with Negro artists,…

— Harry Belafonte

I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the…

— Harry Belafonte

I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he…

— Harry Belafonte

I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled…

— Harry Belafonte

Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?

— Harry Belafonte

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience…

— Harry Belafonte

I would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said... I would like to take this…

— Harry Belafonte

I don't think soldiers should be anywhere in the world. I mean, that is a moral and a basic philosophy. I think…

— Harry Belafonte

The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into…

— Harry Belafonte

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor,

— Harry Belafonte

The Catholic Church had strict racial attitudes and intolerance for anybody who was not Catholic. When I look at a lot of…

— Harry Belafonte

When I was 20 and 30, my visions for what the world would be, all things were possible.

— Harry Belafonte

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes…

— Harry Belafonte

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights…

— Harry Belafonte

John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand…

— Harry Belafonte

I realized that most white Americans knew very little about our history and our struggle, and were having difficulty understanding the basis…

— Harry Belafonte

Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here…

— Harry Belafonte

My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family,…

— Harry Belafonte