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

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

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

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

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

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

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