Georgia Douglas Johnson Quotes & Sayings

How much living have you done?
From it the patterns that you weave
Are imaged:
Your own life is your totem pole,
Your yard of cloth,
Your living.

How much loving have you done?
How full and free your giving?
For living is but loving
And loving only giving. — 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

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

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

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 it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars. — 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

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

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