“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.””
Collected Short Works
Quotes by Alice Dunbar Nelson
“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?””
Greatest Short Stories By Black Writers: Including The Goophered Grapevine, Sweat, The Comet, The Sheriff's Children and more
“The mass of those to whom slavery was a dim recollection of childhood found the world a puzzling thing: it asked little of them””
Greatest Short Stories By Black Writers: Including The Goophered Grapevine, Sweat, The Comet, The Sheriff's Children and more
Alice Dunbar NelsonAlice Dunbar Nelson was a prominent African American poet, novelist, and activist whose work explored themes of race, gender, and social justice. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, she was the daughter o...