"My mother was kept very busy with her……" — James Weldon Johnson
"My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her."
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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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If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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I never fell in love with another woman. I cannot have a relationship with a woman if I'm not in…
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But I've lost parts because of my looks. I auditioned to star with Richard Dreyfuss in 'The Buddy System.' The…
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We're all connected. Helping another woman is helping yourself, your mother, your sister, your children.
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I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with…
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My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old.
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Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every…
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I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry…
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Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
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