Anne Spencer Quotations

I really have no idea why it would take seven weeks to give teachers the pay that they are due. I would love to know what they're doing with all that money.

Actually, we had negotiated for it years ago and the school board was ready to ratify it and the community went bonkers over it, ... wonderful Wednesdays.

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.

When you have Kelly girls and boys grading those things that will determine whether teachers' will get that pay is unconscionable in my estimation.

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.