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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
- Berlin
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
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- Nov 07, 2020