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From Quotes by James Weldon Johnson
- 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 the…
- It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
- The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put…
- My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when…
- My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow…
- It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
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