Artists Are The Gatekeepers Of Truth.

In Fact, Because Of This Deep Desire For Peace, The Ruling Class Leaders Of This Land, From 1945 On, Stepped Up The Hysteria And Propaganda To Drive Into American Minds The False Notion That Danger Threatened Them From The East.

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

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.

With Othello, Shakespeare Posed This Problem Of A Black Man In A White Society In The Role That He's Playing. And Shakespeare Gave Othello Such Dignity - He Came Not From - As He Said - Not From Hate But From Honor, From A Sense Of His Own Human Dignity. And To Me, To My Mind, There Could Be No Greater Character Played.

Art Is Not Just To Show Life As It Is, But To Show Life As It Should Be.