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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
My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.
— James Weldon Johnson
As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
— James Weldon Johnson
I lived to learn that in the world of sport all men win alike, but lose differently;
— 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
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
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'm lonely I'll make me a world.
— James Weldon Johnson
Lift every voice and sing.
— James Weldon Johnson
Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.
— 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
Music is a universal art; anybody's music belongs to everybody; you can't limit it to race or country.
— James Weldon Johnson
There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.
— James Weldon Johnson
With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!
— James Weldon Johnson
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
— James Weldon Johnson
Whose starboard eye
Saw chariot 'swing low'? — James Weldon Johnson
Saw chariot 'swing low'? — James Weldon Johnson
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
— James Weldon Johnson
As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
— James Weldon Johnson
O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
— James Weldon Johnson
This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
— James Weldon Johnson
It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.
— 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
New York had impressed me as a place where there was lots of money and not much difficulty in getting it.
— 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
I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
— James Weldon Johnson
[R]acial supremacy is merely a matter of dates in history.
— James Weldon Johnson
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
— James Weldon Johnson
It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.
— James Weldon Johnson
Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
— James Weldon Johnson
Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
— 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
Paris practices its sins as lightly as it does its religion, while London practices both very seriously.
— James Weldon Johnson