Marian Anderson Quotes

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

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

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.

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

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.

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

You cannot fool an audience.

Where there is money, there is fighting.

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.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

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

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

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.

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