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As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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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. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? ↗

— Jimmy Johnson

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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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. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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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. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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