"As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs."

Old, Songs

29

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs."

Exlpore more Old quotes

"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Old, Years

"Old foxes want no tutors."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Old, Want

"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Old,

"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Old,

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Old,

"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Old, Security

"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Old,

"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Old,

"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Old,

"When a new book is published, read an old one."

Samuel Rogers, English Poet

Old,

Explore more quotes by 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."

People

"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."

People

"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

"Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town."

Thought

"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."

People

"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."

Travel

"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."

Money

"Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville."

Music

"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."

Black

"It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree."

Man