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Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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“... the rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ...”
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“I had not thought of violets of late, / The wild, shy kind that springs beneath your feet / In wistful April days ...”
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“... Winter had stretched / Long chill fingers into the brown, streaming hair / Of fleeing October.”
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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 howl ...”
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“My birthday! Fifty-two years old. Ye gods! Can you believe it? I feel about thirty-two, look forty-two. ... I am fifty-four, feel twenty-five, look forty.”
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“I am profoundly in the D's — discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.”
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“Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.”
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“... didacticism is the death of art ...”
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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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“[They] felt as if their nerves had been peeled with rusty knives.”
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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 of the largest pyramid.”
Alice Dunbar-Nelson, U.S. writer, poet, journalist, political activist
(1875 - 1935)
Full name: Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson.