Harry Belafonte Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• My formative years, until I was 12, was all shaped by Jamaican culture, by that economy, by the people in my family, who are agriculturalists, who were plantation workers, who harvested those crops and took them down to the boats run by the United Food Company, to load those ships at night, hence all the songs that I sing that come from that environment.

  Harry Belafonte

  Running, Song, Night

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• Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education even more. Being part of a school environment will prepare them for the future, while helping to remove the stigma and discrimination unfortunately associated with AIDS.

  Harry Belafonte

  Children, School, Fighting

• I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I go and find the environment of those who are living in poverty and resisting poverty is a great in which I have great comfort.

  Harry Belafonte

  America, Comfort, Asia

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• In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs they sing, the admission is filled with inspired moments to overcome oppression.

  Harry Belafonte

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• I come from a sense of struggle, a sense of using the instruments that were given to me to manipulate the environment in which I found myself, and joined up with those who are equally as skillful at manipulating that environment, as was I.

  Harry Belafonte

  Struggle, Environment, Given

  "Harry Belafonte Birthday Tribute". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. February 28, 2017.

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