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Marian Anderson

"When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless."

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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 that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless."

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"No beautiful aspect of humankind is foreign to person with a lucid soul."

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"To breath the air of Paris preserves the soul."

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"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."

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"My soul is a pale, tenuous membrane..."That was pleasing: a thin, tenuous membrane. It had the right anatomical quality. Tight blown, quivering in the blast of noisy life. It was time for him to descend from the serene empyrean of words into the actual vortex. He went down slowly. "My soul is a thin, tenuous membrane..."

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"She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy."

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"There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you."
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"Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating."
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"I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country."
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"None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath."
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"You lose a lot of time, hating people."
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"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."
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"When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether."
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