Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there 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.