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James Weldon Johnson

"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."

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"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."

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"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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"But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form."
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"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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