Not that another woman would steal my soul, but she would fatally interfere with the organisation of my books, for which Aunt Raquel had a reverential respect that she had transmitted to a long line of terrified cleaning ladies.

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Mr. DE PREIST: She knew that she was Marian Anderson, but my aunt was simultaneously the most humble person I ever met in my life and the most powerful.

NPR: Conductor James DePreist

His sister, my great aunt Dorothy, did manage to get him to talk and she wrote up a diary about his experiences.

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