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American anthologist of black culture, Poet and Diplomat. 1871-1938
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“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.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“O Black and unknown bards of long ago,/ How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and all they have produced. The world does not know that a people is great until that people produces great literature and art.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes. I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.”

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