8 ordspråk av James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes. I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.
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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
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Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.
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O Black and unknown bards of long ago,/ How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
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The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and all they have produced. The world does not know that a people is great until that people produces great literature and art.
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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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Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
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