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The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

Source: The Souls of Black Folk, ch. 1, 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.

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