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She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
— James Weldon Johnson
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
— James Weldon Johnson
It is the spirit of the South to defend everything belonging to it. The North is too cosmopolitan and tolerant for such a spirit.
— James Weldon Johnson
As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
— James Weldon Johnson
And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.
— James Weldon Johnson
![James P Johnson Quotes By James Kirkup: Now [Mike] Gove has destroyed Boris Johnson.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-p-johnson-quotes-by-james-kirkup-1519031.jpg "James P Johnson Quotes By James Kirkup: Now [Mike] Gove has destroyed Boris Johnson.")
Now [Mike] Gove has destroyed Boris Johnson.
— James Kirkup
It may be because Southerners are very much like Frenchmen in that they must talk; and not only must they talk, but they must express their opinions.
— James Weldon Johnson
I felt leap within me pride that I was colored; and I began to form wild dreams of bringing glory and honor to the Negro race.
— James Weldon Johnson
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
— James Weldon Johnson
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
— James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
— James Weldon Johnson
In spite of the bans which musicians and music teachers have placed on it, the people still demand and enjoy Ragtime.
— James Weldon Johnson
Paris practices its sins as lightly as it does its religion, while London practices both very seriously.
— James Weldon Johnson
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
— James Boswell
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
— James Weldon Johnson
Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
— James Weldon Johnson
Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
— James Weldon Johnson
It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.
— James Weldon Johnson
The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them
— James Johnson
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
— James Weldon Johnson
![James P Johnson Quotes By James Weldon Johnson: [R]acial supremacy is merely a matter of dates](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/james-p-johnson-quotes-by-james-weldon-johnson-331840.jpg "James P Johnson Quotes By James Weldon Johnson: [R]acial supremacy is merely a matter of dates")
[R]acial supremacy is merely a matter of dates in history.
— James Weldon Johnson
I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
— James Weldon Johnson
And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.
— James Weldon Johnson
New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it.
— James Weldon Johnson
This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.
— James Weldon Johnson
It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.
— James Weldon Johnson
Johnson and I sent Holden to mediate because he was the perfect person to show what a clusterfuck it was out there. How ugly it could be.
— James S.A. Corey
