Anne Spencer Quotes & Sayings

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

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

He Said...

Your garden at dusk
Is the soul of love
Blurred in its beauty
And softly caressing;
I, gently daring
This sweetest confessing,
Say your garden at dusk
Is your soul, My Love. — Anne Spencer

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring. — Anne Spencer

I proudly love being a Negro woman
it's so involved and interesting. — Anne Spencer

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. — Anne Spencer

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. — Anne Spencer

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