"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers……" — James Weldon Johnson
"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune."
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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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More Cap Quotes
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I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
— Rodney Atkins
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When I was in Minnesota serving in the state Senate and in Washington, D.C., I did everything I could to…
— Michele Bachmann
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I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's…
— John Boehner
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When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and…
— Christina Aguilera
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When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear…
— Bill Bryson
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,…
— Abraham Cahan
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Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that…
— Steve Carell
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Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to…
— David Cameron
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Just tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.
— Pedro
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have…
— Mark Hatfield
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