Famous quotes containing the words johnson and/or building:
“Throw the children into the river; civilization has given us too
many.
It is better to die than to grow up and find that you are colored.
Pluck the stars out of the heavens. The stars mark our destiny. The
stars marked my destiny.
I am tired of civilization.”
—Fenton Johnson (1886–1958)
“The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)