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My social and political interests are part of my career. I cannot separate them. My songs reflect the human condition. The role of art isn't just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

— Harry Belafonte

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In the face of all the inhumanity, their humanity feeds the capacity to endure and continue to pursue honorable solutions to our pain.

Harry Belafonte and ‘The Long Road to Freedom’ YES! Magazine (2002)

I don’t think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in. ... You should go through life knowing, "I am somebody."

That is unacceptable. And that’s what I speak out against.

The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

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