W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963

Topics

WorkLeadershipPeopleObstacles

I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.

Jennifer McMahon

FamilyChildHairWoodsFeathers

There are some things which are so horrific that some people feel they can't do anything about it: that the natural, understandable response is to tune it out.

Anderson Cooper

PeopleFeelSome PeopleOutAnything

What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.

Michael Ignatieff

StrongPlaceTestWeakSourceWhere

I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting.'

Sophie McShera

BeautifulHateGoEveryoneLighting

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

Steven Pinker

PossibilitiesViolenceInequality

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

Trent Reznor

LifeFearThinkMy LifeI Think

The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job.

Robert Forster

GoodJobPictureInterestingEnough

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

Russell Tovey

MyselfParentsYouOutComeYour

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.

Mickey Sumner

FatherMusicThinkPlaceSometimes

I always wanted to perform.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

AlwaysWantedPerform

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

Don Bluth

WorkLiveMusicPeopleActionSex

That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going to think?'

Ashley Monroe

MusicPeopleThinkYouMessRadio

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