My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously

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

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights.