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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

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.


James Weldon Johnson


#bears #black #could #does #effective

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.


James Weldon Johnson


#always #appearance #especially #good #guest

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.


James Weldon Johnson


#borrow #dollars #fellow #fifty #gambling

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


James Weldon Johnson


#another woman #busy #helping #her #kept

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.


James Weldon Johnson


#assist #charity #elevation #his #justice

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


James Weldon Johnson


#first #first love #her #i #love

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


#being #classed #even #first #fought

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.


James Weldon Johnson


#atlanta #boyhood #capital #decided #farewell

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.


Jimmy Johnson


#care #ceo #coach #every #every time






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