Harry Belafonte
FameRank: 6

"Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award"

2014

/ emmyawards = "Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program/Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program"

1960 Tonight with Belafonte, The Revlon Revue

/ tonyawards = "Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical/Best Featured Actor in a Musical"

1954 John Murray Anderson's Almanac

/ grammyawards = "Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording/Best Performance - Folk"

1961Swing Dat Hamme

"Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording/Best Folk Recording"

1966 An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba

"Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award"

2000

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I was quite taken with her, because I'd never seen the African influence in dance with that kind of strength and artistic power. It impacted my soul. No one had reached those heights. She was the definitive black dance company. She moved among the highest intellectuals of black culture, all the writers and painters and literary folk.

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We've watched her be abused in the past, and she's overcome, stood strong. We're not going to be absent or indifferent to the fact that she may be abused again.

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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet, ... I'm always in Africa . . . And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

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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.

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

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We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees.

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I think that they [Bush Administration] are men who are possessed of evil.

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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

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I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor."

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