Quotes

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.

Marian Anderson

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

Marian Anderson

It is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn't have this and I didn't have that. But it is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. She had the things that really mattered.

Marian Anderson

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

Marian Anderson

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

Marian Anderson

I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people.

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

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping-or attaches the name of St. Patrick to the day of the year that bartenders fear most.

Jon Anderson

I listened hard but could not see. Life tempo change out and inside me.

Jon Anderson

Yes that's right. I, personally, like rap and hip hop music; doing this is diversing my music but I think up until now it's totally different than what I've done before, I wonder if this is good.

Namie Amuro

Where make-up is concerned, since I dance and work up a sweat, I never like mascara.

Namie Amuro

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Namie Amuro

When I was still in a group, I danced all the time, but since I went solo, I didn't have any promotion videos where I danced at all.

Namie Amuro

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.

Namie Amuro

When I think of my older songs, I can't believe that some of the key were so high!

Namie Amuro

When I sing and dance I act really cool, but when I sing a ballad I pretty much go back to being a normal girl while I'm singing, and that's kind of embaressing and I also worry if the audiance will accept me like that that.

Namie Amuro

Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

Namie Amuro

Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.

Namie Amuro

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

Namie Amuro