W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois

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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

Ingrid Newkirk
- People
- Important
- Why
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

Salman Rushdie
- Life
- Religion
- Child
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Kanye West
- Music
- Power
- Basketball
If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.

Vince Lombardi
- You
- Loss
- Winner
I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.

Naval Ravikant
- People
- Time
- Great
My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.

Raney Aronson-Rath