121 Quotes by Harry Belafonte

When I was forty and looking at sixty, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But sixty-two feels like a week and a half away from eighty. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.

We talked for four hours, ... After four hours I knew I was with someone who would change the course of history.

There's a lot of people out here who are really pissed off.

doing things that were anti-Semitic and against the best interests of her people.

It was not only the extreme reverence with which the young viewed him, it was the way they began to sing the songs. It was more than just mouthing the lyrics they became deeply connected to his poetry.

I'm not familiar with all of what the case is about, so I can't speak to that.

I not only think that they are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing, and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.

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.

When I went to Japan I sang in Japanese; when I went to Greece I sang in Greek. When I went to Spain, I sang in Spanish. I couldn't speak it very well, but I sang, I was beautiful in singing it. These things just constantly attracted people to the uniqueness of who I was and the way in which I performed.