| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31049 |
| QUOTATION: | You sang far better than you knew; the songs
That for your listeners’ hungry hearts sufficed
Still live,—but more than this to you belongs:
You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), U.S. author. O Black and Unknown Bards (l. 45–48). . .
Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row. |
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