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Quote by James Weldon Johnson

“O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?”

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James Weldon Johnson was an American author, poet, musician, and civil rights activist. He is known for his poetry, novels, and musical compositions, and was a significant figure in the American civil rights movement. more

“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion.”

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Book:Shadow and Act

Source: Shadow and Act

“This is it for a winner, Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner, Move slide your rump, Just for a minute let's all do the bump, Bump, bump, bump yeah.”

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Author:MC Hammer

“When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.”

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Author:Louis Armstrong

“Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”

Source: Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

“Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.”

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Author:Josephine Baker

“I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.”

Children Beauty Angel

Author:Bessie Smith

“I am totally against plastic surgery. A lot of people think I have breast implants because I have the biggest boobs in the business.”

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Author:Tyra Banks

“Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.”

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Author:Nikki Giovanni

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