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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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Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!
— Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise;…
— James Weldon Johnson
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I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom…
— Rose O'Neal Greenhow
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You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.
— Maria V. Snyder
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The darkness is my birthright.
— Nico
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Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather,…
— Ella Maillart
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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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If you don’t come back to the Keep, then I’ll be right. And every time you see me, I’ll be insufferably smug.”…
— Maria V. Snyder
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I, Horus, son of Osiris, claim the throne of the heavens as my birthright!" he shouted."What was once mine shall be mine…
— Rick Riordan
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