James Weldon Johnson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicBestPeopleChurchClass

What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.

Joe Rogan

FutureScienceNew ThingsAmazing

People are friendlier in New York than London.

John Oliver

New YorkPeopleNewLondonThan

When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

GreatFindingYouDownRightOut

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Mencius

GoodTimeEvilNegativeSomebody

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

UniverseAskSinglePrayLaws

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

Josh Billings

SelfKnowDifficultOnlyMostThing

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.

Josh Pais

CitySurviveLearnDangerousVillage

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

Bruce Sterling

ShadowStartDataYouInformation

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

AloneThinkRejectionSeemsHates

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

Anthony Bourdain

LifeFoodDayCityRestThink

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Anthony Hopkins

GodReligionBelieveUnderstanding

I'm never scared, so I don't watch horror movies. Back in the day, I was. I was scared of 'It' - you know, the one with the clown. That's the thing I found scariest in my life, but since then, not really - I don't watch them.

Ashley Thomas

LifeDayMy LifeYouBackKnow

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