"Young man, young man, your arm's too short…" — James Weldon Johnson
"Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God."
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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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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to…
— Vanna Bonta
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There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw…
— Jeff Bridges
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but…
— Barbara Bush
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
— Lord Byron
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It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head…
— Sholom Aleichem
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One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When…
— Nicolas Cage
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility…
— Benjamin Carson
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If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these…
— Unknown Author
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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