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The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.


Gerrit Smith

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KATE SMITH In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances t...
KATE SMITH I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing.
KATE SMITH Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is...
KATE SMITH This nation loves singing and loves acting.
KATE SMITH Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had s...
KATE SMITH Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
KATE SMITH My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
KATE SMITH Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and famil...
KATE SMITH There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
KATE SMITH Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do ...
NATHANIEL SMITH May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
NATHANIEL SMITH