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I'm lonely I'll make me a world.
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I'm Lonely
Lonely
World
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She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
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Boys
First Love
Firsts
Boy
Loved
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Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
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God
Men
Arms
Hands
Young
Young Man
God Man Your
Man
Arm
Box
Too
Short
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It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.
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Black
Disgrace
Inconvenient
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As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
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Aristocracy
Looks
Perfect
Aristocrat
Look Back See
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Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
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Worst
Washington
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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
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Appreciate
Slave
Song
Old
Fully
Themselves
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O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
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Music
Fire
Long Ago
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And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
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Book
Couple
Divided
School
Life Music My Life
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With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!
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Men
Hands
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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
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Work
Fortune
Good Fortune
Labor
Magician
Philosopher
Stones
Cap
Philosophers
Stone
Wand
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I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
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Travel
Earth
London
Paris
Spot
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I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
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All Things
Consideration
Enjoyed
Paris
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And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.
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Space
Lonely
World
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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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Another Woman
Busy
Helping
Mother
Sewing
Sometimes
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It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.
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Honest
People
Strange
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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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American Music
Character
Distinctive
Blues
Derives
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Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.
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Able
Race
Should
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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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Country
Diversity
Justice
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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Music
Characteristics
Jazz And Blues
May
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And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.
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War
Hands
Humanity
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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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Ashamed
Cake
Ought
People
Thinking
Great People Proud
Colored
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The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
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Country
People
White
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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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Black History
Blood
Tears
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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.
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Daughter
Encouraging
Inspirational
Black
Gifted
New Beginnings
Waiting
World
Young
Just
Begin
Must
Quest
Tell
Yours
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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 it in His own image.
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Baby
Clay
Dust
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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 enjoyed the singing very much.
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Boys
Strong
Voice
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My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
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Appearance
Height
Piano
Play
Welcome
Good Always Me
Guest
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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 enjoyed the singing very much.
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Choir
Enjoyed
Possessed
Member
Soprano
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Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
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Attendance
Class
People
Teaching
Acquainted
Best Music People
Colored
Irregular
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I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
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Country
White
Understand
Believe I Believe Better
Colored
Fact
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...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.
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Running
Doe
Past
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But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
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Ambition
Classic
Desire
Felt
Form
Joy
Musical
Unselfish
Voice
American
Hopes
Joys
Sorrows
Stirred
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Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.
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Abstract
Charity
Elevation
People
Philanthropy
Race
White
Assist
Northern
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Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
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Amsterdam
Cities
Conditions
Dutch
Mind
Surprise
Venice
Great Always Mind
Entered
Town
Similar
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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 skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
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Sea
Sky
Voice
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When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.
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Differences
People
World
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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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Acquaintance
Berlin
Concerts
Enjoyed
Good Man
Musician
Numbers
Attended
Number
Formed
Large
Large Number
Musicians
Orchestral
Terms
Several
Spoke
Whom
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I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
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Death
Burning
Conscience
Excuse
People
Race
Salvation
People See Find
Death People See
Act
Being
Any
Find
How
Entrusted
Human
Whatever
Slowly
Human Being
See
Tolerating
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Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
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Affection
Despise
Elevation
Race
Southern
Strong
White
People Will Nothing
Aid
Individuals
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Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.
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Congregation
Fervor
Heart
Human Heart
Musical
Religious
Song
Thrilling
Emotions
Missed
Old Songs
Spell
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My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
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Dollars
Fifty
Gambling
Hundred
Luck
Meals
Workmen
Ahead
Borrow
Fellow
Rent
Settle
Table
Varied
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Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort.
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Effort
Suffering
Trying
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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.
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Men
Despair
Leaving
London
Massive
Paris
Sadness
Man Me Long
Capital
Man Long Me
Contrive
French
Seemed
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At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.
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Music
Names
Piano
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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 spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
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Cities
Latter
London
Paris
Lots
Due
Immensely
Just As Much
Merely
Popular
Solely
Tolerated
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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.
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Romantic
Admire
Bravery
Chivalry
Great People
Justice
Oneself
People
Picturesque
Point Of View
Views
Certain Point
Frame
Looked
Many Respects
Notions
Respects
Whites
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It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
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Active
Bears
Black
Fury
Nevertheless
Passive
Resistance
Storm
Struggle
Tree
Does
Fights
He
Could
Effective
His
Present
Possibly
Though
Willow
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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 flashed; He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled; And the waters above the earth came down, The cooling waters came down.
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Eye
Hands
Sea
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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 the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.
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Music
Running
Heart
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