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I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.

Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.159, University of Illinois Press
I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.