As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs. - James Weldon Johnson

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I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

James Weldon Johnson

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

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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.

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Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

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The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

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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.

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

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