Marian Anderson Quotes

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Marian Anderson
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.

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Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Marian Anderson
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 first move.... The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

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I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

Marian Anderson
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
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
It is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn't have this and I didn't have that. But that is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all.

Marian Anderson