A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.


The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays (ed. Oxford University Press on Demand, 1995) - ISBN: 9780195076455

James Weldon Johnson Quotes

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure...

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure...

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure...

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure...