Georgia Douglas Johnson Quotes

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I want to die while you love me,
While yet you hold me fair,
I want to die while you love me.
Oh! who would care to live
Till love has nothing more to ask,
And nothing more to give.

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.
I know, for I used to abide.
In the narrowest nest in a corner.
My wings pressing close to my side.

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 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

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Born: September 10, 1877

Died: May 14, 1966 (aged 88)

Bio: Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson, better known as Georgia Douglas Johnson, was an American poet, one of the earliest African-American female playwrights, and a member of the Harlem Renaissance.

Known for:

The heart of a woman, and other poems (1918)
An autumn love cycle

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