Paul Robeson Quotes About Culture

• I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

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  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

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  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.

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  "The Whole World in His Hands: A Pictorial Biography of Paul Robeson". Book by Susan Robeson, p. 72, 1981.

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