A Boat Against the Current

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Showing posts with label James Weldon Johnson. Show all posts

Showing posts with label James Weldon Johnson. Show all posts

Friday, June 17, 2011

Quote of the Day (James Weldon Johnson, on America’s Racial Divide)

“How would you have us, as we are? Or sinking 'neath the load we bear? Our eyes fixed forward on a star? Or gazing empty at despair?”—Ja...

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