Alice Dunbar Nelson Quotes

• In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of youthful patriots who seriously set themselves to right the wrongs done to their race or nation or . . . art or self-expression.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Art, Expression, Race

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• It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Punishment, Wish, Compelled

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• The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Illumination, Color, Sky

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• I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Depression, Discouraged, Disheartened

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• Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Body, Mines

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• Didacticism is the death of art.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Art

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• Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Racism, Tree, Body

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• I had not thought of violets of late,
  The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
  In wistful April days.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Spring, Feet, Shy

  Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”

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• Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Fashion, Ideas, Innovation

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• Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Art, Pyramids, Light

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• Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Dog, Sadness, Blue

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