Du Bois Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“and he took up his abode with one of his sons, enjoying, perhaps, as serene and happy an old age as ever fell to…

— Anonymous

“Major - de Coverley was a splendid, awe-inspiring, grave old man with a massive leonine head and an angry shock of wild white hair…

— Joseph Heller

“I wish I could say he was a French professor, a French chef, or even a bilingual tutor, but I can’t. He worked in…

— Chila Woychik

“Hey dawg, wassup?" he said, in the strange way that white talent agents from Los Angeles do in an attempt to sound like young…

— Craig Ferguson

“Old Colonel Chesnut came for us. When the train stopped, Quashie, shiny black, was seen on his box, as glossy and perfect in his…

— Mary Boykin Chesnut

“Du Bois became known as one of those “half dozen Negroes” who had allowed Harvard “to make a man out of semi-beast,” as New…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Like so many of the young men he grew up with, my grandfather Luis Lujan was proud to answer his nation's call to serve…

— Ben Ray Lujan

“Most of us, out of a politeness made up of faint curiosity and profound resignation, go out to meet the smiling stranger with a…

— James Thurber

“It was worth many hardships to see forty German professors try to mount forty recalcitrant mules. My own horseman¬ ship, as already hinted, is…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“As the eldest son, he had duties, and he was used to working, having done so since leaving school at the age of twelve…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Ye are a scoundrel, a black-hearted robber and a rogue,' Stubble said cheerily to the grumbling captain. It was his usual way of haggling,…

— Ian Livingstone

“...a French lieutenant, who had been long enough out of France to forget his own language, but not long enough in England to learn…

— Henry Fielding