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James Weldon Johnson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: June 17, 1871 - June 26, 1938

Topics

Waiting World Black You Young Begin

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

Start Feel Back Go Page Need

I've always been physical. I have no concept of what life is like without physical activity.

Life Always Without Activity Been

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

Family Mother Home Me Nothing Over

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

Person Way Ability Whatever Restore

If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.

Think Camera Easy You Successful

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

Responsibility Opportunities Think Us

Your target market and their demographics realistically need to be in alignment with your own beliefs and morals, or you may have trouble reaching out to them - or keep them once others have entered the market.

Morals You Target Trouble Need Out

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Merab Mamardashvili

Man Product Changes Invisible Hard

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.

John Poindexter

Government People Data Trail Audit

I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old.

Family God Remember Old First Got

When you finish a drama, you go, 'I can't wait to do a comedy.' When you finish a comedy, you go, 'I want to do a dramedy, dark humor.'

Humor Wait Comedy You Dark Drama

I think I've had extremes of being unable to exist outside of my own head, and then I only am existing for other people... There's a middle ground where I should take care of myself and other people.

Myself People Think Care Take Care

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