"To me, faith as practiced all around me was blindly tied to religion, and religion was preachers in Harlem and Jamaica passing the hat for Jesus and driving off in fancy cars. It was nuns invoking the Christian spirit and rapping my knuckles with sticks. It was priests blessing Italian troops on the newsreels, sending them off to slaughter defenseless Ethiopians. I failed to see any good in the hypocrisy of that."

(Harold George Bellanfanti Jr., meglio noto come Harry Belafonte, detto anche "il re del calypso", cantante, muscista, attore, attivista per i diritti civili; New York, 1º marzo 1927 – New York, 25 aprile 2023)