#ld

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

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'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#anywhere #brilliance #else #face #hair

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career. ↗

— Sally Kellerman

#businesswoman #career #how #i #know

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 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

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

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#arrived #capital #contrive #could #despair

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. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#begun #black #gifted #just #must

I just felt all along that if I could get a certain amount of years in the league, have great years and still have my health when I walked away, that would be great. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#amount #away #certain #could #felt