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James Weldon Johnson Quotes

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

James Weldon Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Appreciate Old Slave Songs Negroes

My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.

Family Time Travel Impossible Early

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Change Time Us Just Does Unfolds

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

Man Strong Sleeping Belief Idle

It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host... It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

Work Funny Business I Am Talking

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

Father Feelings Emotions My Own Talk

I'd watch Pixar movies for, like, six hours, back-to-back. I'd watch 'Finding Nemo' twice a week, back-to-back-to-back, three times in a row.

Finding Week Three Movies Twice Six

For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.

Demetrious Johnson

Win Champion You Want Possible Belt

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

Place Resting Ancestors Ground Ashes

I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.

Fun People Have Fun Story Play Want

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

Pope Benedict XVI

Love Good Great Values Liberty

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

Marion Cotillard

Experience Search You Find Living

Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What's more, environmental regulators should abide by the law.

Water Responsibility Politics Law

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