"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character."
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), U.S. author, poet. Black Manhattan, ch. 11 (1930). |
"Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring,
ring with the harmonies of liberty.
Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies;
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea."
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), African-American hymn-writer. Published in The Hymnal (1982). "Lift every voice and sing," l. 1-4, Edward B. Marks Music Corporation (1921).
Considered the "African-American National Anthem." |
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