Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, p. 241.
Johnson was the greatest boxer of his era and perhaps of all time. The not only beat the what champions in an era of Jim Crowe but he lived an ostentation life as a celebrity -- almost unheard of for a Black man at tht time. He never assumed any subervience which was expected of all Negroes at the time, He lived openly with a white woman and was jailed for a while. What is particualrly interesting about this quotation is that with all his accomplishments as the best boxer in the world, a man wh was very wealthy, that the thing he was most proud of was that he had maintained his manhood and did not cower as almost all blacks were forst to do. What he achieved ia what most Black men have striven for and still do.
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for writing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses.
