...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share
