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James Weldon Jhonso Quotes & Sayings
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As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.
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She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.
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Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
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My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.
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And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.
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There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.
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I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
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My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
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Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.
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I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
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Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
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I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
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Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
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But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
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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.
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The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
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