“The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.”
— James Weldon Johnson
Author: James Weldon Johnson
Category: romantic
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“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
Author: James Weldon Johnson
Category: imagination
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“I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.”
— James Weldon Johnson
Author: James Weldon Johnson
Category: beauty
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“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
Author: James Weldon Johnson
Category: learning
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