In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea to be African.
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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.
Paul Robeson
My name is Paul Robeson, and anything I have to say, or stand for, I have said in public all over the world, and that is why I am here today.
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The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.
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