"None of us is responsible for the..." — Marian Anderson
"None of us is responsible for the..."
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25 Quotes by Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson has 25 quotes on this site.
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A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a…
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the…
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You lose a lot of time, hating people.
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I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear…
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Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers,…
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If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can…
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Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment.…
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The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others…
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When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see…
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When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
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I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never…
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
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One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much…
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So…
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all…
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
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