My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.
-- James Weldon Johnson
   
James Weldon Johnson   Name:
James Weldon Johnson
Type:
Poet
Nationality:
American
Birth:
June 17, 1871
Death:
June 26, 1938
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