Quotes by James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson

…evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms

Civilization

Evil

Light

…one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you’ve run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.

Doe

Past

Running

A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.

Country

Lynching

Race

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced…. No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.

Art

Greatness

Mean

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.

Cities

London

Paris

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

Cities

Mind

Venice

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I’m lonely – I’ll make me a world.

Lonely

Space

World

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, “O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

Hands

Humanity

War

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

Book

Couple

School

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.

Heart

Religious

Song

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All Things

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Appreciate

Aristocracy

Art

Atlanta

Aviation

Baby

Battle

Black

Black History

Blood

Book

Boys

Burning

Cake

Characteristics

Children

Cities

Civilization

Class

Clay

Consideration

Country

Couple

Crazy

Differences

Disgrace

Diversity

Doe

Dream

Dust

Earth

Effort

Encouraging

Evil

Eye

Farewell

Fighting

Fire

First Love

Firsts

Flight

Gambling

God

Good Man

Greatness

Hands

Heart

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Quotes by James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson

…evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms

…one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you’ve run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.

A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.

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.

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I’m lonely – I’ll make me a world.

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, “O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.

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

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.

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