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James Weldon Johnson quotes: She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: It is the spirit of the South to defend everything belonging to it. The North is too cosmopolitan and tolerant for such a spirit.

It is the spirit of the South to defend everything belonging to it. The North is too cosmopolitan and tolerant for such a spirit.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: I lived to learn that in the world of sport all men win alike, but lose differently;

I lived to learn that in the world of sport all men win alike, but lose differently;

James Weldon Johnson quotes: I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: I felt leap within me pride that I was colored; and I began to form wild dreams of bringing glory and honor to the Negro race.

I felt leap within me pride that I was colored; and I began to form wild dreams of bringing glory and honor to the Negro race.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: It may be because Southerners are very much like Frenchmen in that they must talk; and not only must they talk, but they must express their opinions.

It may be because Southerners are very much like Frenchmen in that they must talk; and not only must they talk, but they must express their opinions.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: I'm lonely I'll make me a world.

I'm lonely I'll make me a world.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: Lift every voice and sing.

Lift every voice and sing.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: Music is a universal art; anybody's music belongs to everybody; you can't limit it to race or country.

Music is a universal art; anybody's music belongs to everybody; you can't limit it to race or country.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!

James Weldon Johnson quotes: Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'?

Whose starboard eye
Saw chariot 'swing low'?

James Weldon Johnson quotes: We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

James Weldon Johnson quotes: This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it.

New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: [R]acial supremacy is merely a matter of dates in history.

[R]acial supremacy is merely a matter of dates in history.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.

It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.

Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: Paris practices its sins as lightly as it does its religion, while London practices both very seriously.

Paris practices its sins as lightly as it does its religion, while London practices both very seriously.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: In spite of the bans which musicians and music teachers have placed on it, the people still demand and enjoy Ragtime.

In spite of the bans which musicians and music teachers have placed on it, the people still demand and enjoy Ragtime.

James Weldon Johnson quotes: It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.