Harry Belafonte Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• I would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said... I would like to take this opportunity to say to Jay Z and Beyonce: I’m wide open, my heart is filled with nothing but hope and the promise that we can sit and have a one-on-one to understand each other.

  Harry Belafonte

  Heart, Opportunity, Promise

  “Jay-Z Responds To Harry Belafonte’s Challenge: ‘My Presence Is Charity’ (My Thoughts)” by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. July 27, 2013.

• I don't find inspiration on Wall Street. I don't find that in Beverly Hills. I don't find that in places where opportunity resides unbridled, and I think the real creative energy and the real juice is in where people are caught, in the economic abyss.

  Harry Belafonte

  Wall, Real, Inspiration

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we have now. It's one thing for us to avenge our pain, our anger, and our rage by targeting bin Laden and a handful of men who have wrought this villainy. But one should be wise enough to ask, What fueled all this? What continues to sustain the possibility that this will not go away? I think the answer is poverty.

  Harry Belafonte

  Wise, Pain, Men

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty, hunger, disease, and devastation. Add to that another two billion people who are just plain poor. If you look into the world of those caught in economic oppression, illiteracy, disease, and sexism, then you'll understand more clearly what we have to do.

  Harry Belafonte

  Opportunity, Two, People

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

• I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled here. Although oppression was common to all of us, those styles of oppression gave us the opportunity to see the world in dimensions we didn't quite see growing up in any one place.

  Harry Belafonte

  Dream, Growing Up, Opportunity

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

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