"As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs."

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James Weldon Johnson

#Song Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Slave Quotes

“I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.”
“Trust nothing but your own experience.”

Source : "David Bowie: What I've Learned". www.esquire.com. January 11, 2016.
“How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'”
“The '60s was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.”
“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”
“The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.”
“They say everyone needs something to love.”
“Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].”

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