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Georgia Douglas Johnson Quotes

Your world is as big as you make it.

Your world is as big as you make it.

Georgia Douglas Johnson
Learning, World, Aging

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Georgia Douglas Johnson
Hours, Made

The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.

Georgia Douglas Johnson
Strong, Demand, Fool

The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

Georgia Douglas Johnson
Stars, Fall, Heart
Georgia Douglas Johnson, “The Heart Of A Woman”

Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?

Georgia Douglas Johnson
Men, Thinking, Way

I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

Georgia Douglas Johnson
Gratitude, Wall, Soul

I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.

Georgia Douglas Johnson
Love, Laughter, Lying
Georgia Douglas Johnson, “I Want To Die While You Love Me”

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.

Georgia Douglas Johnson
Dream, Prayer, Heart

I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!

Georgia Douglas Johnson
Wings, Ease, Breeze

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