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James Weldon Johnson

"In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms."

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"In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."

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Amber Hurdle

"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."

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Amber Hurdle

"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

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Amber Hurdle

"I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived."

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Amber Hurdle

"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."

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Amber Hurdle

"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."

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Amber Hurdle

"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

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Amber Hurdle

"Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun."

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James Weldon Johnson
"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."

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James Weldon Johnson
"Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God."

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James Weldon Johnson
"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."

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James Weldon Johnson
"The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South."

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James Weldon Johnson
"I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them."

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James Weldon Johnson
"Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways."

People

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James Weldon Johnson
"My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals."

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James Weldon Johnson
"The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition."

Soul

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James Weldon Johnson
"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character."

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James Weldon Johnson
"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience."

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