As Americans, Preserving The Best

In My Music, My Plays, My Films, I Want To Carry Always This Central Idea: To Be African.

And At Home In The United States We Found Continued And Increased Persecution, First Of Leaders Of The Communist Party, And Then Of All Honest Anti-fascists.

Films Make Me Into Some Cheap Turn...you Bet They'll Never Let Me Play A Part In A Film Where A Negro Is On Top.

I Found A Special Eagerness Among The Younger, And I Am Sorry To Say, The More Intelligent Negroes, To Dismiss The Spiritual As Something Beneath Their New Pride In Their Race. It Is As If They Wanted To Put It Behind Them As Something To Be Ashamed Of.

My Future Depends Mostly Upon Myself.