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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!
Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
-- Georgia Douglas Johnson, (Sep 10 1866-1967), US poet; She was one of the most prominent women poets of the Harlem Renaissance; she published three volumes of poems, including The Heart of a Woman, 1918.