“When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks… — W.E.B. Du Bois Black boy Copy Share Image
“I have called my tiny community a world, and so its isolation made it; and yet there was among us but a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Community Copy Share Image
“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write.… — W.E.B. Du Bois America Copy Share Image
“In its place stood Progress; and Progress, I understand, is necessarily ugly.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the… — W.E.B. Du Bois African american Copy Share Image
“Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults… — W.E.B. Du Bois Happy childhood Copy Share Image
“They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does… — W.E.B. Du Bois Race Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Atheist Copy Share Image
“the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the… — W.E.B. Du Bois Crime Copy Share Image
“They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Bias and prejudice Copy Share Image
“I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas , where… — W.E.B. Du Bois Alexandre-dumas Copy Share Image
“I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake… — W.E.B. Du Bois Books Copy Share Image
“And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is… — W.E.B. Du Bois Dreams Copy Share Image
“Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," saw in every present… — W.E.B. Du Bois Childhood Copy Share Image
“Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many years against its conquerors;… — W.E.B. Du Bois Black youth Copy Share Image
“You will not wonder at his weird pilgrimage,-who who in the swift whifl of living, amid its cold paradox and marvelous vision,… — W.E.B. Du Bois Black boy Copy Share Image
“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours.… — W.E.B. Du Bois Racism Copy Share Image
“found the world a puzzling thing: it asked little of them, and they answered with little, and yet it ridiculed their offering.… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“The nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy, -- the age when half wonderingly we began to descry in others that… — W.E.B. Du Bois 19th century Copy Share Image
“Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement… — W.E.B. Du Bois Banking Copy Share Image
“the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which… — W.E.B. Du Bois Two souls Copy Share Image
“Be honest, frank and fearless and get some grasp of the real values of life… Read some good, heavy, serious books just… — W.E.B. Du Bois Books Copy Share Image
“Today even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same;… — W.E.B. Du Bois Complexity Copy Share Image
