Alice Dunbar-Nelson > Quotes

“The mass of those to whom slavery was a dim recollection of childhood found the world a puzzling thing: it asked little of them”
― Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Greatest Short Stories By Black Writers: Including The Goophered Grapevine, Sweat, The Comet, The Sheriff's Children and more

“Deed, suh, I would n' low none er dem cussed, low-down abolitioners ter come nigh me, suh. I 'd--I 'd--would I be 'lowed ter hit 'em, suh?”
― Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Greatest Short Stories By Black Writers: Including The Goophered Grapevine, Sweat, The Comet, The Sheriff's Children and more

“How few of us In all the world’s great, ceaseless struggling strife, Go to our work with gladsome, buoyant step, And love it for its sake, whate’er it be.”
― Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Collected Short Works