Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Georgia Douglas Johnson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a poet Georgia Douglas Johnson.

Last updated on November 18, 2024.

Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson, better known as Georgia Douglas Johnson, was a poet. She was one of the earliest female African American playwrights, and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

Poet | September 10, 1880 - May 14, 1966

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

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

Your world is as big as you make it.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

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

Georgia Douglas Johnson