I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience for those of us who grew up under the boundaries of race and race experience in the Caribbean, or for those who grew up in Africa. Our experience has not made us monolithic. We're not all of the same stripe, coming from the same place with the same sense of what the tactics have to be to survive.More Harry Belafonte quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet.More Harry Belafonte quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.More Harry Belafonte quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it -- look at 9/11. [That] wasn't just bin Laden. 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.More Harry Belafonte quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.More Harry Belafonte quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]