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• She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
• This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
• The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
• Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he…
• A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.…
• At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able…
• It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
• O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
• As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
• Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and…
• Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano…
• 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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