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“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.”

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There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

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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 gives to…

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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 the listening…

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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. The final…

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Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they…

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This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped…

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Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

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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 voice. I…

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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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So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings…

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My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

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We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

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