Johnson Believed

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“And God stepped out on space,
And He looked around and said,
“I’m lonely—
I’ll make me a world.””
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

“All our civilization had meant nothing. The same culture that had nurtured the kindly enlightened people among whom I had been brought up, carried around with it war. Why should I not have known this? I did know it, but I did not believe it. I believed it as we believe we are going to die. Something that is to happen in some remote time.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)