Inky Johnson Quotes

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can't overestimate it!

We live in a society where there is no law in making money in the promulgation of ignorance or, in some cases, stupidity. There are a lot of things you can say never happened. You can go as relatively quasi-harmless as saying no one went to the moon. But you also can say that the Holocaust never happened.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. And that's how I have to deal with it.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.

There was no real progress,” she acknowledged in Pulse!. “I wasn’t making any money out of it, so I just stopped

In each separate thing that you do consider the matters which come first, and those which follow after, and only then approach the thing itself.

I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there, I was promoted to the washtub. From there, I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there, I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

When the South has trouble with its Negroes — when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" — it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.

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And oft I heard the tender dove
In firry woodlands making moan.

Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.