James Weldon Johnson Quotes About Earth

• Levantad todas las voces y cantad Hasta que la tierra y el cielo resuenen, Resuenen con las armonías de la Libertad. Que nuestro regocijo se eleve alto como los cielos que escuchan; Que resuene fuerte como el mar ondulante.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Mar, Cielo, Voz

  James Weldon Johnson (2011). "The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson", p.227, Modern Library.

• A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Country, Race, Lynching

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). "The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays", p.352, Oxford University Press on Demand.

• I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Travel, Paris, Earth

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.330, Oxford University Press on Demand

• So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed; He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled; And the waters above the earth came down, The cooling waters came down.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Eye, Hands, Sea

  James Weldon Johnson (2000). “Complete Poems”, p.16, Penguin

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