| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 57690 |
| QUOTATION: | I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed and handicapped me on account of my race, but had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954), African American author, speaker, and social reformer. A Colored Woman in a White World, ch. 42 (1940).
Graduating from Oberlin College in the late 1800s, Terrell was among the first African American college graduates. She then built a distinguished career in public life. |
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