Famous quotes containing the words cora lee johnson, cora lee, lee and/or johnson:
“I am a person. I have feelings. I have needs. I have wants. I’m sittin’ here and nobody sees me. Everybody just looks over me and walks on past because I’m black, because I’m a woman, because I’m poor, because I have no education. But I’m still here.”
—Cora Lee Johnson (b. 1925)
“I am a person. I have feelings. I have needs. I have wants. I’m sittin’ here and nobody sees me. Everybody just looks over me and walks on past because I’m black, because I’m a woman, because I’m poor, because I have no education. But I’m still here.”
—Cora Lee Johnson (b. 1925)
“Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago,
Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove,
Of what Abe Lincoln said
One time at Springfield.”
—Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)
“I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)