From Marian Anderson: "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold the person down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."
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Marian Anderson Quote
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© Jone Johnson Lewis, adapted from an image © 2012 Getty Images / Hulton Archive
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