Dubois Quotes

• Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

  Tennessee Williams

  Unforgivable, Cruelty, Blanche

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• The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Self, African American

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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• There never has been a desire on the part of the government that the struggle of Black people in America should be linked to the struggle of our people in every part of the earth. Every leader that was international in scope and in reach became the target of the government - Paul Robeson, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Kwame Ture and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Any Black leader who would try to connect us to our brothers and sisters in Africa and Asia were seen as a threat and became a target.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Brother, Kings, Struggle

  Fuente: www.finalcall.com

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• [La señora James, mi profesora de quinto curso, nos presentó a estos autores muy pronto y nos enseñó que su literatura es importante. Langston Hughes: leímos su poesía. Estudiamos quién era W.E.B DuBois. Nos abrió el apetito.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Profesor, Nos Enseñó, Importante

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• Creo que en sus 39 cortos años de vida, Malcolm X llegó a simbolizar la América urbana negra, su cultura, su política, su militancia, su indignación contra el racismo estructural y, al final de su vida, una amplia visión internacionalista del poder emancipador mucho mejor que cualquier otro individuo que compartiera con DuBois y Paul Robeson, una perspectiva internacionalista panafricanista.

  Manning Marable

  Pensar, América, Años

  Fuente: historynewsnetwork.org

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• I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know - he certainly was not the easiest person to approach. I think, certainly, those of us who were younger sort of respected that in terms of his preoccupation with deep thoughts. So, I made no effort to establish any relationship with him. However, he was in and out then.

  Ella Baker

  Thinking, Effort, Deep Thought

  Fuente: www.crmvet.org

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• When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it find its way into your "literary voice") because writing was done in merciful privacy and silence. Even if you were partly out of your mind it might turn out to be all right: you could try for control even harder than Blanche Dubois was said to have tried, and with luck you could still bring off a sense of order and sanity on the page for the reader. Reading, after all, was a thing done in privacy and silence too.

  Richard Yates

  Reading, Writing, Order

  Richard Yates (2010). “Young Hearts Crying”, p.184, Random House

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• En la imagen de mi padre, el hombre negro, hijo de África, había empaquetado todos los atributos que buscaba en mí mismo, los atributos de Martin y Malcolm, DuBois y Mandela.

  Barack Obama

  Padre, Hijo, Hombres

  Barack Obama (2007). "Sueños de mi padre: A Story of Race and Inheritance", p.220, Broadway Books

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• Seguía encontrando la misma angustia, la misma duda; un autodesprecio que ni la ironía ni el intelecto parecían capaces de desviar. Incluso la erudición de DuBois, el amor de Baldwin y el humor de Langston acabaron sucumbiendo a su fuerza corrosiva, cada uno de ellos forzado finalmente a dudar del poder redentor del arte, cada uno de ellos forzado finalmente a retirarse, uno a África, otro a Europa, otro a lo más profundo de las entrañas de Harlem, pero todos ellos en la misma huida cansada, todos ellos hombres exhaustos y amargados, con el diablo pisándoles los talones.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Men, Self

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.86, Canongate Books

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• We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Pensamiento, raza, clase

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