Paul Robeson Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

  Paul Robeson

  America, Culture, Ifs

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

• I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Achievement

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press

• For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.

  Paul Robeson

  Thinking, Helping Others, Long

  "The Whole World in His Hands: A Pictorial Biography of Paul Robeson". Book by Susan Robeson, p. 72, 1981.

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