Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

Artists are the radical voice of civilization.

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.

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

Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of the greatest of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of racial and national superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. The struggle invades the formerly cloistered halls of our universities and other seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear.