14 Quotes by Anne Spencer

He Said...Your garden at duskIs the soul of loveBlurred in its beautyAnd softly caressing;I, gently daringThis sweetest confessing,Say your garden at duskIs your soul, My Love.

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.

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

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

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

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

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.

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