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

- Georgia Douglas Johnson

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

- Georgia Douglas Johnson

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

- Georgia Douglas Johnson

Your world is as big as you make it.

- 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…

- 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

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 s…

- Georgia Douglas Johnson