James Weldon Johnson Quotes

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

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memo...

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals it had ne...

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, the...

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

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

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; l...

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me ...

Whose starboard eyeSaw chariot 'swing low'?

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at o...

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

The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprec...

New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the g...

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

American musicians, instead of investigating ragtime, attempt to ignore it, or dismiss it with a con...