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Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top.

— Paul Robeson Paul Robeson : The Whole World in His Hands (1981)

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I am the son of an emancipated slave and the stories of old father are vivid on the tablets of my memory.

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

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.

The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

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