And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
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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.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.
James Weldon Johnson
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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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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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
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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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