W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

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. E. B. Du Bois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

John Hodgman

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My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals.

Ann McKee

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No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

Andy Richter

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'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

Amanda Donohoe

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You get these horrifying straight-to-video things for very little money, then you go to the Cannes Film Festival, and they got some poster of you, 40 ft. high, in the worst movie in the world.

Michael Madsen

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I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

Miroslav Volf

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Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

Moby

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We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.

Lucas Papademos

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'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary, you are always going to be compared with that film, and you are never going to be as funny.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president.

Donald Trump

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The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

David Viscott

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If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.

Arlen Specter

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