Harry Belafonte Quotes

You can cage the singer but not the song.

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• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Long
  • America
  • Black

• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• All four majors are definitely a priority.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Priority
  • Four
  • Majors

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Magic

• The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Writing
  • Name
  • Point

• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • School
  • Kids
  • Girl

• For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Children
  • Honor

• It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Done
  • Political
  • Pleasure

• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • City
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Better

• Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

  

  Yael Stone
  • Country
  • History
  • Australia

• People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Science
  • Religious
  • Talent

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Chance

• It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Hand

• Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Long
  • Down

• There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicago would be radically different.

  

  Mark Kirk
  • Life
  • Different
  • American

• I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to L.A. when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.

  

  Jacob Latimore
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.

  

  Billy Collins
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer