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.

John Say's It's James Who Started First, James Tells The Story In Reverse. I Drag My Belt From Off Me Waist, You Should Have Heard Dem Screaming Round De Place.

I Think America Offers A Dream That Cannot Be Fulfilled As Easily Anywhere Else In The World As It Could Be Fulfilled Here. Although Oppression Was Common To All Of Us, Those Styles Of Oppression Gave Us The Opportunity To See The World In Dimensions We Didn't Quite See Growing Up In Any One Place.

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.

From The Point Of View Of The Poor, The Hungry, The Disenfranchised, The Wretched Of The Earth... There Will Never Be Peace Until Their Condition Has Been Alleviated And Until Their Humanity Is In Full Bloom.