Quotes by Marian Anderson - Page 1

You cannot fool an audience.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Audience
Fool
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A person has to be busy to be alive.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Alive
Busy
Persons
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You lose a lot of time, hating people.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Criticism
Hate
People
Time Lose People
Hating
Hating People
Lose
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Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Peace
Capacity
Christian
Ends
Godly
Human Capacity
Prayer
Begins
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Where there is money, there is fighting.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Money
Fighting
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You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Work
Chimneys
Knows
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Happiness
Inspiring
Peace
Success
Disease
Inhuman
Logic
Away
Eats
Makes
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I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Patriotism
Belief
Country
People
Future Great People
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I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Years Ago
Time Lose People
Forgave
Hating
Hating People
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When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Dream
Inspirational
Ideals
Might
Altogether
Having
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Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Friendship
Good Friend
Insightful
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it
Marian Anderson / Singer
Education
Leadership
Coaching
Understanding
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Leadership
Affected
Born
Needs
Should
Understanding
Those
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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 accomplish.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Believe
Kwanzaa
Purpose
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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 follow.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Courageous
Mean
Way
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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Courage
Courageous
Dare
Deal
Follow
Great Deal
Word
Minute
Whose
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I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Artist
Doubt
Europe
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As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Equality
Inspirational
Positive
Women
Long
Might
Soar
Person
Cannot
Part
Down
Means
Hold
Him
Otherwise
Some
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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.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Nature
Quality
African American
Black
Character
Clue
Complexion
Offers
Responsible
Person
Skin
Fact
His
No Clue
None
Underneath
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A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Grace
Greedy
Moments
Singers
Singer
Instrument
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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.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Black
My Soul
Soul
White
Face
Them
See
Sing
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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.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Black
Soul
White
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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.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Brushing
Irritating
Prejudice
Across
Cheek
Find
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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, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Hair
Hate
Prejudice
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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. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Overwhelmed
Sometimes
Wonder
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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.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Broken Heart
Integrity
Moving
Persons
Ready
Waiting
Fellow
Hearts
Hesitate
Waits
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I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Easier
Impression
Issues
Memories
Mind
Bear
Behind
Leave
Follow
Insist
Mission
Suppose
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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 theother fellow to make the first move--and he, in turn, waits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open- hearted and courageous way, many others follow. Not everyone can be turned aside from meanness and hatred, but the great majority of Americans is heading in that direction. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
Marian Anderson / Singer
Country
Heart
Moving
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