W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
Karin Slaughter
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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L. Lionel Kendrick
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie
A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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Vidya Balan
I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
Barbara Walters
When I lived in Paris in the early '80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times.
Cheech Marin
It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.
Anne Dudley
We know what the writing on the wall is, ... We need to make sure we continue to pay down the debt. That's been one of our objectives all the way along the line. So it's not a retreat at all.
Dennis Hastert
If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.
Carmen Dell'Orefice
Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
W. E. B. Du Bois
