Anne Spencer
Anne Spencer
The poet Anne Spencer was born Annie Bethel Bannisterin Henry County, Virginia. A noted American poet, Anne Spencer was also a teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener. While a librarian at the all-black Dunbar High School, a position she held for 20 years, she supplemented the original three books by bringing others from her own collection at home. Though she lived outside New York City, the recognized center of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement,...
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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.
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
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When you have Kelly girls and boys grading those things that will determine whether teachers' will get that pay is unconscionable in my estimation.
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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.
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Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.
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Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?
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I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.