W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Jessica Jackley

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I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

Melanie Lynskey

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I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.

Amy Winehouse

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I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours.

Rosario Dawson

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I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.

Michael Vartan

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The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

Michael Shermer

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I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Minnie Driver

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Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.

Joss Whedon

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I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

Donna Murphy

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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

Alice Hoffman

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That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

Alfred Hershey

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Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

Lindsey Buckingham

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