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James Weldon Johnson

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A leading American author, poet, and early civil rights activist.. author poet folklorist and civil rights leader


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Quote Left If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. Quote Right
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Quote Left Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. Quote Right
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Quote Left The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. Quote Right
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Quote Left The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years. Quote Right
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Quote Left Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs