7 Quotes by Alice Dunbar Nelson

I am profoundly in the D’s – discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

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

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

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

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.

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor’s chair.

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...