James Weldon Johnson Quotes

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.

James Weldon Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 17, 1871 - June 26, 1938

Topics

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Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?

Joe Frazier

MeSaidNothingHimAlwaysWithout

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Joan Lingard

ChangeGreatTimeParentsConflict

When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

John Hawkes

GoodThinkSomeoneYouRealOut

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

John Cornyn

PeopleWorldBorderYearKnowNow

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.

Mel Tillis

SonSongwriterHeDoes

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Max Eastman

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I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

Matthew Desmond

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I see myself as a revolutionary, as a fashion rebel.

Amar'e Stoudemire

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In the way in which we are living in a much more explosive and more tension-filled society, a society that is driven with more and more contradictions, it is but unavoidable that some of this will also come into cinema. I would, in fact, argue that a part of it is borrowed from Hollywood. It's as if Quentin Tarantino has come to Mumbai.

Amitava Kumar

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I want my clothes to be alluring but not uber sexy.

Suki Waterhouse

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I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

Logan Lerman

GoodHistoryFamousWantSureJust

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Joyce Meyer

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