Anne Spencer Professions : Poet Born : February 6, 1882 Died : July 27, 1975 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Anne Spencer One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. Anne Spencer sad beautiful inspirational I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting. Anne Spencer involved love-is interesting Let me learn now where Beauty is; Anne Spencer let-me born mystery It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; Anne Spencer women weakness humanity Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Anne Spencer new-things teach prophet Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring. Anne Spencer virginia spring years Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning. Anne Spencer figs innocence guilt Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard. Anne Spencer good black communication coffee 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 alone simple life people Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors