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Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 - April 8, 1993), was an American contralto, perhaps best remembered for her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
I had gone to Europe ... to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was and am an American.
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move and he, in turn, waits for you.
You lose a lot of time hating people.
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God ... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.
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