1.
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
2.
It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
3.
Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
4.
The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
5.
I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
6.
I had not thought of violets of late,
The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
In wistful April days.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
7.
Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
8.
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
9.
Didacticism is the death of art.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
10.
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
11.
Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
