#ld

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

I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#better place #community #i #like #live

It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#like #loyalty #management #old #old days

My musical background is like almost every non classical musician in the world. One day a special record was heard and that was it. I was hooked, started trying to play various instruments and was off to bar land to become a rock star. What else? ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#background #bar #become #classical #day

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom. ↗

— Lonnie Earl Johnson

#angry #children #cloud #counts #course

I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough! ↗

— Lonnie Earl Johnson

#closer #concerned #enough #enough is enough #every