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Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you. ↗

— Jimmy Johnson

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And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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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

#better #colored #country #fact #i

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

#any #being #burning #conscience #death

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

#american music #blues #called #character #derives

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

— James Weldon Johnson

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