Marian Anderson is a American Contralto born with Philadelphia the February 27th 1897 and deceased with Portland the April 8th 1993.

After difficult beginnings, its talent was universally recognized and she sang on several occasions under the direction of Arturo Toscanini. She excelled in the most varied kinds, of the negros spirituals where she could express the accents of her community of origin to the romantic Lied er and the Oratorio. She died out after a long career in 1993.

Quotations

“One enormously wastes time to hate people. ” (Extracted the newspaper The NewYork Times - April 18th, 1965)

“We have a whole a gift, would be this only that to be a friend on whom one can count. ”

“The prayer starts where the human capacities finish. ”

“The prejudices are as a hair on the cheek. You cannot see it, you cannot touch it, but you always try to remove it because it is an irritating feeling. ”

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