You Know I Am An Actor, And

And At Home In The United States We Found Continued And Increased Persecution, First Of Leaders Of The Communist Party, And Then Of All Honest Anti-fascists.

This United States Government Should Go Down To Mississippi And Protect My People. That Is What Should Happen.

In My Music, My Plays, My Films, I Want To Carry Always This Central Idea: To Be African.

We [must] Realize That Our Future Lies Chiefly In Our Own Hands.

I Do Not Hesitate One Second To State Clearly And Unmistakably: I Belong To The American Resistance Movement Which Fights Against American Imperialism, Just As The Resistance Movement Fought Against Hitler.