James Weldon Johnson Quotes

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.

James Weldon Johnson

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• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

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• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

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• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

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• There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.

  

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• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  

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• I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

  

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• Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

  

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• There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

  

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• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  

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• It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

  

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• It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.

  

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• Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.

  

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• I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.

  

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• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

  

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• I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

  

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• I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

  

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• I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

  

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• I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

  

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• The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.

  

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• O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?

  

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• 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.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • Black
  • Present
  • Struggle