Top 25 Paul Laurence Dunbar Quotes

#1. The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

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#2. I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

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#3. All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

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#4. In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.

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#5. But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

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#6. Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for the really excellent things which are promised

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#7. Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

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#8. This, this indeed is to be accursed,
For if we mortals love, or if we sing,
We count our joys not by what we have,
But by what kept us from that perfect thing.

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#9. Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

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#10. A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

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#11. I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

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#12. It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.

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#13. Love me, honey, love me true?
Love me well ez I love you?
An' she answe'd, " 'Cose I do"
Jump back, honey, jump back.

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#14. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

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#15. You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,You are soft as the nesting dove.Come to my heart and bring it restAs the bird flies home to its welcome nest.

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#16. I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

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#17. Money is a great dignifier.

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#18. People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency.

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#19. Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.

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#20. We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.

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#21. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

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#22. Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

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#23. We wear the mask that grins and lies.

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#24. Only the rich are lonesome.

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#25. E wear the mask that grins and lies,
it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes-
this debt we pay to human guile;
with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

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