Marian Anderson

“A person has to be busy to be alive.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Sometimes racial prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing it because the feel of it is irritating.”

“Prayer begins where human capacity ends.”

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

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