James Weldon Johnson

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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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

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Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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