“Everything I have done is an extension of my feelings about my own people. I feel some way I’ve become tide up with this whole problem of human freedom. I have no end to my artistic horizon.”-Paul Robeson Tweet

“We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand.” -Paul Robeson Tweet

“My problem it not to counteract [the white American’s] prejudice against the Negro. That doesn’t matter. What I have set myself to do is to educate my brother the Negro to believe in himself. We are a great race, greater in tradition and culture…why should we copy something that is inferior.” -Paul Robeson Tweet

“No power outside of himself can prevent a man from sustaining an honorable character and a useful relation to history and generation.” -Paul Robeson Tweet