Marian Anderson Quotes

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  • You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

    Work   Chimneys   Knows  
  • Where there is money, there is fighting.

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

    Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.312, University of Illinois Press
  • Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

  • A person has to be busy to be alive.

    Alive   Busy   Persons  
  • Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

    Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.241, University of Illinois Press
  • 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.

    Hate   Hair   Prejudice  
  • If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

  • 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.

  • 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 (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.42, University of Illinois Press
  • 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.

    Artist   Europe   Doubt  
    Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.159, University of Illinois Press
  • You cannot fool an audience.

    Fool   Audience  
    Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, University of Illinois Press
  • 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.

    Memories   Issues   Mind  
    Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.244, University of Illinois Press
  • Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

  • 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.

    White   Soul   Black  
  • 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.

    Grace   Singers   Moments  
  • The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

    Mean   Way   Courageous  
    Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.312, University of Illinois Press
  • When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

  • 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 (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.312, University of Illinois Press
  • 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.

    Country   Moving   Heart  
    Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.312, University of Illinois Press
  • Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

  • 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.

  • You lose a lot of time, hating people.

    Hate   People   Criticism  
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