James Weldon Johnson Quotes
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
Quotes to Explore
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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No two wars are identical.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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People want you to fail.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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In film, you can have sad endings.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I remember meeting the princesses at Disney World and getting their autographs.
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Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
