Carmen Jones Was The First All-negro Film

The Sham Engineers Of The Music Industry, Who Steer The Wheels Of Public Opinion, Are Driving The Good Features Of Calypso Into The Ground. I Shudder To Think What These Greedy Men Will Eventually Do To This True Art Form.

Anti-democracy...is A Virus That Exists, And Pro-democracy Is The Antibody To That Virus, And I Think We Have To Become Vigilant, And We Have To Stay On Top Of The Issues Of Democracy And Freedom.

I Think America Offers A Dream That Cannot Be Fulfilled As Easily Anywhere Else In The World As It Could Be Fulfilled Here. Although Oppression Was Common To All Of Us, Those Styles Of Oppression Gave Us The Opportunity To See The World In Dimensions We Didn't Quite See Growing Up In Any One Place.

When I Was 40 And Looking At 60, It Seemed Like A Thousand Miles Away. But 62 Feels Like A Week And A Half Away From 80. I Must Now Get On With Those Things I Always Talked About Doing But Put Off.

My Formative Years, Until I Was 12, Was All Shaped By Jamaican Culture, By That Economy, By The People In My Family, Who Are Agriculturalists, Who Were Plantation Workers, Who Harvested Those Crops And Took Them Down To The Boats Run By The United Food Company, To Load Those Ships At Night, Hence All The Songs That I Sing That Come From That Environment.