Quotes About W. E. B. Du Bois

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

As American conservatives have felt the ebb of cultural power away from them, they have come to feel watched and judged. They do not like it. "How does it feel to be a problem?" memorably asked W. E. B. Du Bois.

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.