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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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As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to…
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting…
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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for…
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But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
— Lois Lowry
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You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the…
— James Weldon Johnson
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We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That…
— Paulo Coelho
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perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of…
— Henry Rollins
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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
— David Mitchell
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Our reflections will always show.We will grow.We will be the world.Gigantic proportions.Magnitude beyond our expectations.Just look at ourselves.Developing at a pace never…
— Unknown Author
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That beautiful moment when you see that he or she is with another person, but you no longer feel hurt. That's when…
— Crystal Yang
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