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Paul Robeson Quotes
«Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.»
«I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed.. . . I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.»
«As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.»
Author: Paul Robeson
(Activist, Actor, Singer)
| About:
Peace,
Silence,
Singers and singing
| Keywords:
speak for
«Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.»
«Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.»
Author: Paul Robeson
(Activist, Actor, Singer)
| Keywords:
choir, choirs, choir loft, coal, eloquence, folk, folk song, gifted, glow, gospel, Gospels, harmonies, Jackson, lilac, lilacs, loft, Negro, parlor, parlors, phrasing, poetic, porches, preachers, rhythmic, rhythms, sermons, singers, soaring, summer sweet, Sung, The Choir, The Glow, thrill
«I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead--peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously»
Author: Paul Robeson
(Activist, Actor, Singer)
| Keywords:
bigotry, bothered, fearing, isolation, My Country
«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. [on the children of Little Rock]»