Carmen Jones Was The First All-negro Film

Each Time We Arrive At A New Level In Extricating Ourselves From Economic, Social, Spiritual Domination, We Have A Moment When We Dance In The World Of These New Experiences, Only To Find That The Music Soon Stops, The Dance Ends, And We're Struggling Once Again To Save Ourselves From Being Thrown Back Into Those Conditions.

When I Was Born, I Was Colored. I Soon Became A Negro. Not Long After That I Was Black. Most Recently I Was African-american. It Seems We're On A Roll Here. But I Am Still First And Foremost In Search Of Freedom.

I Realized That Most White Americans Knew Very Little About Our History And Our Struggle, And Were Having Difficulty Understanding The Basis For Our Agitation And Our Resistance And Our Complaints. I Also Discovered That While Black Americans Had A Sense Of The Beauty And Tragedy Of The Journey From The Time Of Slavery Until Now, We Were Not Rooted In The Specifics. I Thought One Way To Familiarize People With That History Would Be Through The Voices Of The Great Folk Artists.

The Usa Has More People In Prison That Any Other Country, Including Countries With Much Larger Populations. 13% Of The Population Is Black But 80% Of The People In Prison Are Black, Mostly For Soft Crimes.

I've Always Been Supportive Of The Right Of Israel As A State, And I've Always Fought Against Anti-semitism, Even In My Own Community.