W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

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• When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

  

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• Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.

  

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• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  

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• Music is about the performance.

  

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• The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

  

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• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

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• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

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• I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

  

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• I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.

  

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• I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

  

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• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

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• You don't see many Jon Jones's.

  

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• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

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• The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • May
  • Devil
  • Innocent