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

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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.

I work for the United Nations. I go to places where enormous upheaval and pain and anguish exist.

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