Anne Spencer Quotes

• One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

  Anne Spencer

  Inspirational, Sad, Beautiful

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• Let me learn now where Beauty is;
  I was born to know her mysteries . . .

  Anne Spencer

  Mystery, Born, Let Me

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• It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
  To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
  Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,
  Or draw a line daring them to cross.

  Anne Spencer

  Women, Humanity, Weakness

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• I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

  Anne Spencer

  Love Is, Interesting, Involved

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• Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

  Anne Spencer

  Guilt, Innocence, Figs

  Anne Spencer, “At The Carnival”

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• Is any prophet come to teach a new thing
  Now in a more apt time?

  Anne Spencer

  Prophet, Teach, New Things

  Anne Spencer, “Before The Feast Of Shushan”

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• Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

  Anne Spencer

  Spring, Virginia, Years

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