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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 wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long…
— Bill Bryson
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Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you…
— Joel Osteen
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Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it…
— Seth Godin
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You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every…
— Maya Angelou
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It takes intentional effort to tune out every voice except God's.
— Henry Blackaby
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Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as…
— James Weldon Johnson
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Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.
— Roland Barthes
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I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of…
— William Blake
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So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!
— Dr. Seuss
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Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and…
— Matt Mullenweg
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Everything in your life that flows out of love has come to you from God. Everything in your life that is good…
— Ruot Goanar
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When God puts a dream in your heart, it may look impossible in the natural. Every voice may tell you it will…
— Jewels
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