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She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
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This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
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The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
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Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he…
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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.…
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At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able…
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
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Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and…
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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano…
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If…
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't…
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Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be…
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I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner…
— Michael York
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.
— Andrew Johnson
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As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
— James Weldon Johnson
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
— Benjamin Rush
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The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom
— Georg Buchner
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to…
— Lytton Strachey
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Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in…
— Michael Foley
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