Leontyne Price Quotes

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• Who I am is the best I can be.
• Accomplishments have no color.
• I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of…
• All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved,…
• The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
• Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was…
• You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.
• Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight…
• The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the…
• Be black, shine, aim high.
• If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.
• I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.
• Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
• I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.
• Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career…
• We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists…
• For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was…

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