One does not need a very long racial memory to loose on oneself in such a part … As I act, civilization falls away from me. My plight becomes real, t… - Paul Robeson

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One does not need a very long racial memory to loose on oneself in such a part … As I act, civilization falls away from me. My plight becomes real, the horrors terrible facts. I feel the terror of the slave mart, the degradation of man bought and sold into slavery. Well, I am the son of an emancipated slave and the stories of old father are vivid on the tablets of my memory.