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We've Come To This Dark Time In Which The New Gestapo Of Homeland Security Lurks Here, Where Citizens Are Having Their Rights Suspended.

Each Time We Arrive At A New Level In Extricating Ourselves From Economic, Social, Spiritual Domination, We Have A Moment When We Dance In The World Of These New Experiences, Only To Find That The Music Soon Stops, The Dance Ends, And We're Struggling Once Again To Save Ourselves From Being Thrown Back Into Those Conditions.

Carmen Jones Was The First All-negro Film That Became A Great Box-office Success. It Established The Fact That Pictures With Negro Artists, Pictures Dealing With The Folklore Of Negro Life, Were Commercially Feasible. This Was A Sign Of Growth That Had Occurred In The United States And Throughout The World.

I'm Called A Folk Singer, And I'm Not Too Sure About That. I Went About My Life Approaching Music Not From The Point Of View Of A Singer, But From The Point Of View Of An Actor. That's How I First Started To Sing.

I Am Who I Am Despite What America Has Put Before Me. I Am Who I Am Despite The Obstacles That We Have All Faced Based Upon Race And Based Upon Social And Spiritual Humiliation.