Logo
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. – James Weldon Johnson

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Imagination
category

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
Imagination

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. – Sean OFaolain

Category:
Imagination

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, Id try to reenact it. – Adrien Brody

Category:
Imagination

Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper! – George William Curtis

Category:
Imagination

Random Quotes

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didnt care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They dont like people. Its not at all like the relationship between horses and humans. – Rachel Weisz

Category:
relationship

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses – it was right after Roots, and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. – Anna Deavere Smith

Category:
Society

Something of a persons character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. – Christian Nevell Bovee

Category:
smile

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. – Wilhelm von Humboldt

Category:
Happiness