“I cannot repress the thought that, after all…” James Weldon Johnson

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“I cannot repress the thought that, after all, I have chosen the lesser part, that I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage”

James Weldon Johnson (spoken by The narrator)

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Chapter XI (Project Gutenberg #11012)

The final words of the book.

Citation: "I cannot repress the thought that, after all, I have chosen the lesser part, that I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage" — James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Chapter XI (Project Gutenberg #11012). (id johnson-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man-q1)

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Quotation from The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson