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Abbey Lincoln

"There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be."

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"There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be."

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Donna Grant

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

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"Poor men's reasons are not heard."

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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

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"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."

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Abbey Lincoln
"I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas."

War

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Abbey Lincoln
"I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do."

Holiday

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Abbey Lincoln
"I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music."

Music

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Abbey Lincoln
"I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow."

Work

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Abbey Lincoln
"There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be."

Men

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Abbey Lincoln
"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."

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Abbey Lincoln
"It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter."

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