"Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?"

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Source : "Harry Belafonte in guns plea: 'Where is the raised voice of black America?'" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2013.

Harry Belafonte

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“Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.”
“I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.”
“Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.”
“I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.”
“Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.”
“The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.”
“These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a wonderful stew of the past, the life caught in memory and imagination, serves it all up lavishly laced with silences, and provides us with a gourmand's series of short courses.”
“I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.”

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