Georgia Douglas Johnson Quotes

• Your world is as big as you make it.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Learning, World, Aging

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• Rise with the hour for which you were made.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Hours, Made

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

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Strong, Demand, Fool

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• 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”

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• 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

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• 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”

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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