“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
“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
“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
“I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where… — W.E.B. Du Bois Promised land 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
“In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly… — W.E.B. Du Bois Cup of tea Copy Share Image
“The worlds within and without the Veil of Color are changing, and changing rapidly, but not at the same rate, not in… — W.E.B. Du Bois Disconnect 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
“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
“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of… — W.E.B. Du Bois African americans 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
“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