“Life with Mother and Father, while he lived, was a thing of great joy, as I remember it now. 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 that is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. Certainly there were a lot of things she did not have, but she never missed them, because she didn’t really need them. She had the things that really mattered.”
– Marian Anderson
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“Marian Anderson quote: ‘Life with…'” Sources
Quote: Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993. My Lord, What a Morning : an Autobiography. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
Portrait: Van Vechten, Carl, photographer. Portrait of Marian Anderson. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2004662515/>.
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