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DRAMATISTS > poet > Georgia Douglas Johnson
I battered the...
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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!
Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
-- 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.