Marian Anderson Quotes

“We helped plow the fields, build the dams, write the poems and sing the music of America. Are not all Americans proud, of Doree Miller, of Frederick Douglass, of Paul Robeson, of Joe Louis, of Marian Anderson”
― Oliver W. Harrington, Why I Left America and Other Essays

“When I hear Marian Anderson sing,
I am a STUFFless kind of thing,

Heart is like the flying air,
I cannot find it anywhere.

Fingers tingle. I am cold
And warm and young and very old.

But, most, I am a STUFFless thing
When I hear Marian Anderson sing.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Bronzeville Boys and Girls: A Picture Book of Classic Poetry About Urban Life and Childhood for Kids