W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.

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

LearningHistoryMenPeopleSlavery

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

John Greenleaf Whittier

LifeTruthDeathNewOldProceeds

We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show.

Mel Gibson

ProcessDyingEveryoneEverythingUs

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

John McAfee

TechnologyHeartMindRelationships

Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.

Robert Gottlieb

WorkNobodyCallCould

I will say that I wasn't susceptible to Tony Robbins-like pitches, even as a younger man.

Andy Kindler

ManSayWillEvenYoungerPitches

I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.

Stacy Schiff

EducationGoodGreatMyselfBook

We owe it to the fans to do a tour around the world.

Steven Adler

WorldFansTourOweAround

Anywhere you go, you're gonna have to compete. In life, you're gonna go get a job. You're gonna have to compete with the next person.

Tua Tagovailoa

LifeJobYouPersonGoCompete

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

Tom Vilsack

HistoryGreatTimeChallengeDayGo

I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

Miranda Kerr

WomenBeautifulFlowersRoseWant

Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.

Jason Fried

WorkGreatPeoplePersonWantWill

Is typecasting really a problem?

Christopher Walken

ProblemReally

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