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One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. - W. Bois Quotes

One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

American Writer

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W. Bois Quotes

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

American Writer Cost

But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. - W. Bois Quotes

But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. - W. Bois Quotes

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

American Writer

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. - W. Bois Quotes

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

American Writer Consciousness

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. - W. Bois Quotes

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

American Writer

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime. - W. Bois Quotes

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War. - W. Bois Quotes

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.

Race And Racism

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. - W. Bois Quotes

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

American Writer

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. - W. Bois Quotes

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.

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