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“More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."”

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As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

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I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience…

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Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

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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…

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Each time we arrive at a new level in extricating ourselves from economic, social, spiritual domination, we have a moment when we dance in…

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I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I…

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In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs…

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I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly…

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I'm always suspicious of celebrities that write about their lives.

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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…

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Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

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Although we had a lot of villainy here in America, Adolf Hitler was certainly the most visible illustration of what would happen if fascism…

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