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 at it because the feel of it is irritating.
Marian Anderson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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