Alice Dunbar Nelson quotes
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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 NelsonSource : Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”
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“It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.”
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“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.”
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“The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.”
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“I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.”
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“Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.”
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“Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.”
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“Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.”
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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.”
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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
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