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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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The compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals. We're Americans. We just want to be treated like everybody else. That is…
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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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A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It…
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So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem…
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No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.
— Unknown Author
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A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.
— Suzi Quatro
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Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men…
— Norman MacCaig
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Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.
— Greg Brown
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Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I…
— William Blake
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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
— Clive James
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Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.
— Howard Nemerov
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I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.
— Joy Baluch
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