African american Quote by W.E.B. Du Bois

“So flagrant became the political scandals that reputable men began to leave politics alone, and politics consequently became disreputable. Men began to pride themselves…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“A university is a human invention for the transmission of knowledge and culture from generation to generation, through the training of quick minds and…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“A resistless feeling of depression falls slowly upon us, despite the gaudy sunshine and the green cotton-fields. This, then, is the Cotton Kingdom--the shadow…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Lo! we are diseased and dying, cried the dark hosts; we cannot write, our voting is vain; what need of education, since we must…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Not a single Southern legislature stood ready to admit a Negro, under any conditions, to the polls; not a single Southern legislature believed free…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that swayed and…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro.…

— W.E.B. Du Bois