Black Quote by Andre Holland

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black…

— Ray Stannard Baker

I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a…

— Matthew Desmond

“The more antiracist W. E. B. Du Bois became, the more he realized that trying to persuade powerful racists was a waste of time,…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“[T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America…

— Michelle Alexander

“Often dismayed by but generally unflinching in the face of perpetual adversity, he [W.E.B. Du Bois] engaged the battle for equal human rights and…

— Aberjhani

“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root,"…

— Bernice L. McFadden

“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.]…

— Aberjhani

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry

In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship,…

— David Levering Lewis

“I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.”

— Tepilit Ole Saitoti

“For what people of color quickly come to see—in a sense the primary epistemic principle of the racialized social epistemology of which they are…

— Charles W. Mills

“Black Americans were hardly losing any moral or cultural battles. They were being violently and nonviolently defeated in political and economic battles, as Du…

— Ibram X. Kendi