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James Weldon Johnson has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
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This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
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The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
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Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he…
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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged.…
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At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able…
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
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Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and…
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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano…
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If…
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A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in…
— Richard M. Nixon
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A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.
— Henry Beard
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If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel…
— Cassandra Clare
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Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed…
— James Weldon Johnson
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I'm on a strict running program. I started yesterday. I've only missed one day so far.
— Kevin Nealon
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I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.
— Mark McGwire
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There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full…
— Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a…
— Dane Cook
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of…
— Edward Frederic Benson
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Zoot e lour! I have missed one! -Louie
— The Little Mermaid
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Since 1989 I have tackled every bill my momma has ever given me. Hadnt missed one. Now next they say, Prime didnt…
— Deion Sanders
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We got $7 a week each, but we really had to earn it. We have to clean our room, vacuum, feed the…
— Ashley Olsen
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