“Then came drama. I was persuaded to try it and found it a living avenue.” — Georgia Douglas Johnson | V2Melody

“Then came drama. I was persuaded to try it and found it a living avenue.”

Describing drama as an immediate and vital creative path · Autobiographical statement published in Opportunity, July 1927

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Georgia Douglas Johnson

About Georgia Douglas Johnson

Georgia Douglas Johnson

10 September 1880–15 May 1966

Georgia Douglas Johnson was a luminous voice in American literature, a poet whose words captured the fluttering heart of womanhood, the weight of racial identity, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit during one of the most vibrant eras of Black artistic expression. Born on September 10, 1880, in Atlanta…

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“I'm half way between everybody and everything and I bring them together.”

Summing up her role as a host who connected writers and communities · Newspaper interview, The Baltimore Afro-American, 28 May 1966

Friendship

“But, lest we forget, we must now and then come down to earth, accept the yoke and help draw the load.”

Balances soaring lyric with the duty of shared struggle · Letter to Arna Bontemps, 1941

“Long years ago when the world was new for me, I dreamed of being a composer—wrote songs, many of them.”

Recalls an early vocation in music before poetry claimed her · Autobiographical note, Opportunity, July 1927