"It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s……" — James Weldon Johnson
"It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient."
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James Weldon Johnson
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47 Quotes by James Weldon Johnson
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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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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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