The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
Source: The Souls of Black Folk, ch. 14, 1903.
-- W E B Du Bois, (Feb 23 1868-1963), US writer, social reformer; He was prominent in the early movement for racial equality and helped create the NAACP, 1909.