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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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"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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"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

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"Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money."

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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

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"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."

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"Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money."

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Akiroq Brost

"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."

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"A man never grows out of wanting and desiring money that follows him through life."

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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."

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"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."

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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
"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."

Money

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James Weldon Johnson
"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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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
"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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James Weldon Johnson
"The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice."

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James Weldon Johnson
"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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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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James Weldon Johnson
"Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much."

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James Weldon Johnson
"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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