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W E B Du Bois
There are certain...
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason,...
One ever feels...
One ever feels his twoness -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring...
Throughout history, the...
Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the...
Believe in life!...
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller...
If there is...
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let...
Histories of the...
Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly forgot...
I believe in...
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other...
When in this...
When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his...
To be a...
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of...
The shadow of...
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history,...
All womanhood is...
All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both...
It is a...
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of...
The music of...
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced...
But what of...
But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up...
The cost of...
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
Source: In Famous Black...
The future woman...
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own...
An American, a...
An American, a Negro. . . two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body,...
Would America have...
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
Source: In Famous Black...
The problem of...
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
Source: In...
We black men...
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and...