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Alice Dunbar Nelson

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[Wikipedia] Alice Dunbar Nelson was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end of the American Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Ha

Quotes by Alice Dunbar Nelson

I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Depression

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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 Nelson

April

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It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Compelled

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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…

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Art

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The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Color

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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…

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Ads

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Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Bears

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Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Body

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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…

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Blue

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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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Chairs

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Didacticism is the death of art.

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Art

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