"In the life of everyone there is a……" — James Weldon Johnson
"In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life."
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James Weldon Johnson
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47 Quotes by James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson has 47 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized…
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At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I…
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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,…
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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear,…
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The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are…
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
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Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may…
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In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
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Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more…
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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been…
— Sigmund Freud
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Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
— Horace
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Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
— George Edward Woodberry
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He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This house isn't mine anymore, but the memories are; the memories can't be sold. The building that housed my once-upon-a-time…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Create each day anew.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every…
— Johannes Kepler
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old.…
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