Paul Robeson Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

  Paul Robeson

  Music, Play, Ideas

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

• In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.

  Paul Robeson

  Attitude, Responsibility, Artist

  "Here I Stand". Book by Paul Robeson, p. 124, 1958.

• Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top.

  Paul Robeson

  Play, Film, Let Me

  "The Whole World in His Hands: A Pictorial Biography of Paul Robeson". Book by Susan Robeson, p. 92, 1981.

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