Anne Spencer
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"Annie Bethel Spencer" (February 6, 1882, Henry County, Virginia – July 27, 1975, Lynchburg, Virginia) was an American poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement and Harlem Renaissance period.

Spencer was the first Virginian and first African-American to have her poetry included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry. Also an activist for equality and educational opportunities for all, she hosted such dignitaries as Langston Hughes, Marian Anderson, George Washington Carver, Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Weldon Johnson, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

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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.

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing/ Now in a more apt time?

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.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

Let me learn now where Beauty is;/ I was born to know her mysteries . . .

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

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.

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.