I Delighted In The Music Of Africa,

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.

Although We Had A Lot Of Villainy Here In America, Adolf Hitler Was Certainly The Most Visible Illustration Of What Would Happen If Fascism Went Unchallenged.

When I Went To Japan I Sang In Japanese; When I Went To Greece I Sang In Greek. When I Went To Spain, I Sang In Spanish. I Couldn't Speak It Very Well, But I Sang, I Was Beautiful In Singing It. These Things Just Constantly Attracted People To The Uniqueness Of Who I Was And The Way In Which I Performed.

Bin Laden Didn't Come From The Abstract. He Came From Somewhere, And If You Look Where ... You'll See America's Hand Of Villainy.

Carmen Jones Was The First All-negro Film That Became A Great Box-office Success. It Established The Fact That Pictures With Negro Artists, Pictures Dealing With The Folklore Of Negro Life, Were Commercially Feasible. This Was A Sign Of Growth That Had Occurred In The United States And Throughout The World.