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.

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

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

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.

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

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.