The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

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

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom

Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

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