James Weldon Johnson Quotes

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

James Weldon Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MotherWomanBusySometimesSewing

I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you can't afford it, you can get a scholarship.

Jess Weixler

AgeSchoolMeChanceGivingYou

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

Robert Lopez

YouNeverSomethingGoingWell

The language surrounding cancer is not language I'm particularly comfortable with.

Michael C. Hall

LanguageComfortableCancer

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Solon

FriendAdviceGivingHelpSeekYour

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

Tom T. Hall

MeCareerDeadHerInterviewing

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Juan Williams

CongressPresidentMoreLawsOnly

Books were in my family - books were my family.

Joshua Cohen

FamilyBooksWere

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

Dee Rees

FilmmakingWayWriteUpGiveThem

I'm a woman specialist now. I'm going around the world to challenge all the woman champions. England, France, Czechoslovakia, everywhere.

Bobby Riggs

ChallengeWomanWorldChampionsNow

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

William Peter Blatty

MeKnowHorrorOldLittleInterest

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

Seth Lloyd

TimeUniverseViewYouPoint Of View

In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few seconds out of water. That's how evolution works. Spectrally. We are all mermaids.

Timothy Morton

WaterEndEvolutionBreatheOut

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