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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.

Old
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Nov 07, 2020

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

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.

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Nov 07, 2020

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

Blues
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Nov 07, 2020

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

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