Harry Belafonte Quotes - Page 3

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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

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• I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the point of view of a singer, but from the point of view of an actor. That's how I first started to sing.

  Harry Belafonte

  Views, Actors, Singers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

  Harry Belafonte

  People, Culture, Vibrancy

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. If a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated.

  Harry Belafonte

  Color, Tyrants, Black

  Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 11, 2005.

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• The Catholic Church had strict racial attitudes and intolerance for anybody who was not Catholic. When I look at a lot of Black ministers and what went on in the Black church, I was more caught up with those who were in Cadillacs and shiny suits than I was with those who were Kingian in their style.

  Harry Belafonte

  Attitude, Catholic, Black

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 1, 2011.

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• 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

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• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  Harry Belafonte

  Usa, Generosity, United States

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• When I went to Japan I sang in Japanese; when I went to Greece I sang in Greek. When I went to Spain, I sang in Spanish. I couldn't speak it very well, but I sang, I was beautiful in singing it. These things just constantly attracted people to the uniqueness of who I was and the way in which I performed.

  Harry Belafonte

  Beautiful, Japan, People

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 1, 2011.

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• I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how unyielding the larger society has been - that much has been learned.

  Harry Belafonte

  Thinking, Unyielding, Taught

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• 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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• I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

  Harry Belafonte

  Men, Thinking, Honor

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• I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

  Harry Belafonte

  Israel, Community, Supportive

  "Belafonte's Retraction of Remarks on Jews Causes New Flap". CNSNews.com, www.cnsnews.com. July 07, 2008.

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• I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

  Harry Belafonte

  Men, Thinking, Evil

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• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  Harry Belafonte

  Arrested

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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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• More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."

  Harry Belafonte

  Mother, Men, Planets

  "Dreams from My Father". Book by Barack Obama, 1995.

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• John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.

  Harry Belafonte

  Family, Should Have, Stories

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• Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

  Harry Belafonte

  House, Want, Masters

  Harry Belafonte (2012). “My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race & Defiance”, p.296, Canongate Books

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• Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.

  Harry Belafonte

  Hands, America, Looks

  "Did Harry Belafonte Dishonor America?". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. December 02, 2005.

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• To really know what progress we’re making for children, we have to know how many children we have to begin with. The simple act of counting is an expression of a country’s intent to take care of its people.

  Harry Belafonte

  Country, Children, Simple

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• Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America, but certainly what we see globally. And I don't see anywhere any philosophical analysis that suggests we know how to get out of this.

  Harry Belafonte

  Philosophical, America, Analysis

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 30, 2011.

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• I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

  Harry Belafonte

  Selfish, Believe, Thinking

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• I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity brought to the lives of the Africans who were forced to come to America.

  Harry Belafonte

  Song, America, Transformation

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• 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

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• Each time we arrive at a new level in extricating ourselves from economic, social, spiritual domination, we have a moment when we dance in the world of these new experiences, only to find that the music soon stops, the dance ends, and we're struggling once again to save ourselves from being thrown back into those conditions.

  Harry Belafonte

  Spiritual, Struggle, New Experiences

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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