Paul Laurence Dunbar Quotes

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

- Paul Laurence Dunbar

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With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. - Paul Laurence Dunbar

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. - Paul Laurence Dunbar

I simply came to the conclusion that I could write [dialect poetry] as well, if not better, than anybody else I knew of... and that by doing so I should gain a hearing. I gained the hearing, and now they don't want me to write anything but dialect. - Paul Laurence Dunbar