James Weldon Johnson Quote

All the while I understood that it was not discouragement or fear or search for a larger field of action and opportunity that was driving me out of the Negro race. I knew that it was shame, unbearable shame. Shame at being identified with a people that could with impunity be treated worse than animals.


The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, 10


All the while I understood that it was not discouragement or fear or search for a larger field of action and opportunity that was driving me out of...

All the while I understood that it was not discouragement or fear or search for a larger field of action and opportunity that was driving me out of...

All the while I understood that it was not discouragement or fear or search for a larger field of action and opportunity that was driving me out of...

All the while I understood that it was not discouragement or fear or search for a larger field of action and opportunity that was driving me out of...