Marian Anderson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You lose a lot of time, hating people.
-- Marian Anderson

#Hate #People #Criticism
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

#Hate #Hair #Prejudice
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

#Positive #Mean #Long
If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.
-- Marian Anderson

#Believe #Purpose #Ends
Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
-- Marian Anderson

#Friendship #Good Friend #Being A Good Friend
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
-- Marian Anderson

#Dream #Might #Wells
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it
-- Marian Anderson

#Leadership #Understanding #Needs
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

#Broken Heart #Moving #Waiting
Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
-- Marian Anderson

#Peace #Prayer #Capacity
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

#Grace #Singers #Moments
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
-- Marian Anderson

#Happiness #Inspiring #Success
You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.
-- Marian Anderson

#Work #Chimneys
Where there is money, there is fighting.
-- Marian Anderson

#Money #Fighting
You cannot fool an audience.
-- Marian Anderson

#Fool #Audience
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

#Country #Moving #Heart
None of us is responsible for the...
-- Marian Anderson

#African American #Responsible
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

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

#Mean #Way #Courageous
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

#Artist #Europe #Doubt
A person has to be busy to be alive.
-- Marian Anderson

#Alive #Busy #Persons
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

#Overwhelmed #Realizing #Sometimes
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

#Character #African American #Black
I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.
-- Marian Anderson

#Country #People #Patriotism
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

#Memories #Issues #Mind

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