Georgia Douglas Johnson quotes
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“Your world is as big as you make it.”
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“Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?”
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“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 JohnsonSource : Georgia Douglas Johnson, “I Want To Die While You Love Me”
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“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 JohnsonSource : Georgia Douglas Johnson, “The Heart Of A Woman”
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“Rise with the hour for which you were made.”
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“The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool.”
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“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!”
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“I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.”
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“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
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”
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Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.259, Litres
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“I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.”
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