Anne Spencer quotes
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“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.”
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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.”
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“Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.”
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“I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.”
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“Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .”
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“Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?”
-- Anne SpencerSource : Anne Spencer, “Before The Feast Of Shushan”
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“Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.”
-- Anne SpencerSource : Anne Spencer, “At The Carnival”
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Source : Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”
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“Haters are a drop in the ocean. Theres that much more love”
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