James Weldon Johnson said this quote

“ 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. ”

Famous Quotes of James Weldon Johnson

Famous quotes of James Weldon Johnson from the classy quote

See all

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.

~ James Weldon Johnson

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

~ James Weldon Johnson

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

~ James Weldon Johnson

American musicians, instead of investigating ragtime, attempt to ignore it, or dismiss it with a contemptuous word. But that has always been the course of scholasticism in every branch of art. Whatever new thing the 'people' like is poohpoohed; whatever is 'popular' is spoken of as not worth the while. The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best that he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.

~ James Weldon Johnson