Will Johnson
Will Johnson
continue outside
What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.
waiting black world
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
country white justice
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
art mean greatness
A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.
race able should
Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.
sea sky voice
Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
people strange honest
It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.
dream children ambition
My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when I sometimes open a little box in which I still keep my fast yellowing manuscripts, the only tangible remnants of a vanished dream, a dead ambition, a sacrificed talent, I cannot repress the thought, that after all I have chosen the lesser part, that I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage
god men arms
Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
lonely space world
And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.
lonely world im-lonely
I'm lonely I'll make me a world.
memories years numbers
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.
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.
song religious heart
Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.