Georgia Douglas Johnson Quotes

#1. Your world is as big as you make it.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

#2. 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

#3. Your world is as big as you make it.
I know, for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner,
My wings pressing close to my side.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Georgia Douglas Johnson

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Georgia Douglas Johnson

#10. Against the day of sorrow
Lay by some trifling thing
A smile, a kiss, a flower,
For sweet remembering

Georgia Douglas Johnson

#11. Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Georgia Douglas Johnson