Anne Spencer Quotes

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

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

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

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.

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

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

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