Johnson
Johnson
Johnson is a surname of English origin. The name itself is a patronym of the given name John, literally meaning "son of John". The name John derives from Latin Johannes, which is derived through Greek Ἰωάννης Iōannēs from Hebrew יוחנן Yohanan, meaning "Yahweh has favoured". The name has been extremely popular in Europe since the Christian era as a result of it being given to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian saints...
paris consideration enjoyed
I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
differences people littles
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.
gambling luck meals
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.
first-love boys firsts
She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.
ambition voice joy
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.
race lynching names
I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.
work stones philosopher
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
country justice democracy
This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
race people burning
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.
cities venice mind
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
couple book school
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
lonely world im-lonely
I'm lonely I'll make me a world.
music may characteristics
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
lonely space world
And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.