10 ordspråk av Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson föddes den April 9th 1898 och dog den 23 January 1976 - US actor singer
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 [Singer Marian Anderson was investigated in 1958 when the State Department considered her for] a top level position. ... typical temperamental musician. |
| As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. |
| As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. |
| Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near. |
| I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead--peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously |
| I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed.. . . I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own. |
| In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African. |
| The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread. [on the children of Little Rock] |
| Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man. |
| Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech. |
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Proverb (1469539 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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