You can cage the singer but not the song.

Carmen Jones was the first all-Negro film that became a great box-office success. It established the fact that pictures with Negro artists, pictures dealing with the folklore of Negro life, were commercially feasible. This was a sign of growth that had occurred in the United States and throughout the world.

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

I would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said... I would like to take this opportunity to say to Jay Z and Beyonce: I’m wide open, my heart is filled with nothing but hope and the promise that we can sit and have a one-on-one to understand each other.

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.