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James Weldon Johnson

"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."

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"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."

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"How beautiful it is to be stress free and bloom slowly like a flower."

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"Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye."

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"One bright star is better than a thousand dull moons."

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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

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"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."

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"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

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"Truth is like beauty, it lies in the mind of the beholder."

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"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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"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
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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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"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."
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"I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race."
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"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
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"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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"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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