James Weldon Johnson

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.