James Weldon Johnson People Quotations

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

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.

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

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.