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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
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Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: June 17, 1871
Died: June 26, 1938

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She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
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I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
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Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
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The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
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Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
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The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
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