Black Manhattan Quotes

“To many, especially among coloured people, a Harlem night-club is a den of iniquity, where the Devil holds high revel. The fact is that the average night-club is as orderly as many a Sunday-school picnic has been.”
― James Weldon Johnson, Black Manhattan

“The masses of Harlem get a good deal of pleasure out of things far too simple for most other folks.”
― James Weldon Johnson, Black Manhattan

“New Yorkers and people visiting New York from the world over go to the night-clubs of Harlem and dance to such jazz music as can be heard nowhere else; and they get an exhilaration impossible to duplicate.”
― James Weldon Johnson, Black Manhattan

“The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence was not without some collateral”
― James Weldon Johnson, Black Manhattan