W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

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• I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Way
  • Religion
  • Problems

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Care
  • Consciousness
  • Become

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Hunger
  • Finished
  • Zombies

• In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Growth

• Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Think
  • Always

• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Emotional

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Problem
  • Potential
  • Israel

• That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

  

  Dan Brown
  • True
  • Faith
  • Acceptance

• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • World
  • Compassion

• I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • World
  • You
  • Talk

• Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Girls

• The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Always
  • Will
  • Act

• For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Done
  • Art
  • Change

• Training is a universal right. It's not just targeted at those with the worst skill levels.

  

  Jeff Denham
  • Training

• When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Boy

• If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Kids
  • Audience
  • Looks

• I was so nervous about 'Kingsman,' I can't tell you, because when you do things different and fresh and fun and crazy, you don't know how people are going to react.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • People
  • Different
  • Fun

• God is the only Friend for the Soul on the Way to God.

  

  Rumi
  • God
  • Soul
  • Way

• I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Training
  • Boys
  • Manual