O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
James Weldon JohnsonAmericans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
James Weldon JohnsonThe colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
James Weldon Johnson