#ch

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#bachelor #been #born #every #orphan

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour. ↗

— Holly Johnson

#before #college #drop-out #dropped #even

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. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#aid #certain #despise #elevation #helpful

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it. ↗

— Jack Johnson

#chicken #friend #got #him #i

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bravery #certain #certain point #chivalry #frame

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

#cause #character #follow #good #good leader

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#city #due #fact #immensely #just

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

— James Weldon Johnson

#books #couple #divided #life #music

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

#congregation #emotions #experience #fervor #heard

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