To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the worlds need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need this life is hell.W. E. B. Du Bois
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
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When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message... The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty....
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
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