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Frances Watkins Harper: What matters it...

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What matters it if they do forget the singer, so they don't forget the song.

Source: Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, 1892.
-- Frances Watkins Harper, (Sep 24 1825-1911), US poet; She was among the earliest U.S. black writers; wrote anti-slavery verse, 1850s-1860s; co-organized the National Association of Colored Women.


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