Anne Spencer Quotes (11 Quotes)

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

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

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.

Actually, we had negotiated for it years ago and the school board was ready to ratify it and the community went bonkers over it, ... wonderful Wednesdays.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

I don't know a whole lot of college graduates who are going to work a 10 temporary job. I know that they have to find people somewhere to grade them, but I would certainly hope that they would find professional readers, not just kids out of college that are looking for something to do.

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

I really have no idea why it would take seven weeks to give teachers the pay that they are due. I would love to know what they're doing with all that money.

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

I saw your heart, And altered there in its darksome place; Were the tongues of flame the ancients knew . . .