The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.

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.

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

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

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.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.