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Billy Eckstine has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing…
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When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn…
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My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and…
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I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
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Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and…
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When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
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... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
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I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.…
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I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up…
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I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my…
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I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't…
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I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
— Arthur Ashe
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I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.
— Amanda Beard
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I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest.…
— Marla Runyan
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I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because…
— Muhammad Ali
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I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.
— Hattie McDaniel
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the…
— Hattie McDaniel
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Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.
— Madam C. J. Walker
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In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again…
— Maya Angelou
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Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be…
— Asafa Powell
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I know that my race must change.
— Chief Joseph
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I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which…
— Mary Church Terrell
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