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Quotable! – W.E.B. Du Bois

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William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Boisย  (1868-1963) sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, editor, and author. Image from AAIHS.

“A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.”

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“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”

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“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”

Quotable – Ernest J. Gaines

Ernest Gaines

Ernest Gaines, author of A Lesson Before Dying, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and A Gathering of Old Men. Image from Google

“I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.”

 

“Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.”

 

“I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.”