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"As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs."
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"We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types."
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"I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers."
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"Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses."
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"The 'good old times' - all times when old are good."
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"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."
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"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
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"Old foxes want no tutors."
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"Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma."
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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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"Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst."
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"Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God."
God

"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun."
Black

"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
Despair

"The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice."
People

"Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much."
Being

"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."
Beauty

"And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books."
Life

"In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms."
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