I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
James Weldon JohnsonAnd so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
James Weldon JohnsonBut 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.
James Weldon JohnsonWhen we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
James Weldon Johnson