James Weldon Johnson Quotes

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

James Weldon Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.

Melissa McCarthy

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At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.

John Lasseter

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I was a host and a busboy and a barback.

Max Aaron

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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

Amy Adams

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Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

Siobhan Fahey

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It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it.

Tom Ford

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I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

Mary Landrieu

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There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.

Martin O'Malley

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'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.

Douglas Rushkoff

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Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk.

Anthony Quinn

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I think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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