Cora Lee Johnson

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    I am a person. I have feelings. I have needs. I have wants. I’m sittin’ here and nobody sees me. Everybody just looks over me and walks on past because I’m black, because I’m a woman, because I’m poor, because I have no education. But I’m still here.
    Cora Lee Johnson (b. 1925)

    I am a person. I have feelings. I have needs. I have wants. I’m sittin’ here and nobody sees me. Everybody just looks over me and walks on past because I’m black, because I’m a woman, because I’m poor, because I have no education. But I’m still here.
    Cora Lee Johnson (b. 1925)

    “Novelties and notions?” What kind of notions you got?
    Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Flower Belle Lee (Mae West)

    That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)