“With his head in his hands,
God thought and thought,
Till he thought: I'll make me a man!”

— James Weldon Johnson

The Creation, st. 10.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)

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writer and activist 1871–1938

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“With his head in his hands,
God thought and thought,
Till he thought: I'll make me a man!”