Early Years
Johnson grew up in Coushatta, Louisiana. Johnson was a letterman in basketball and track and field. In track and field, she was the Louisiana State Champion on the long jump as a senior.
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“Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man,—a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Did she in touching that lone wing
Recall the years before her mind
Became a bitter, an abstract thing...?”
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