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Colored People Quotes by James Weldon Johnson
- The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
- Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
- There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
- I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people…
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- Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people… — James Weldon Johnson