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"I've known rivers
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers."

Who wrote this?
a. Gwendolyn Brooks
b. Langston Hughes
c. Sterling Brown
d. W.E.B. DuBois
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W.E.B. DuBois

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born

February 23, 1868

died

August 27, 1963

gender

male

place of birth

Great Barrington, Massachusetts, The United States

genre

Nonfiction

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95.

David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism — scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity."

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avg rating: 4.08 | 2,043 ratings | 188 reviews | 89 distinct works | 11 fans

	The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois, Monica M. Elbert, Donald B. Gibson (Introduction) avg rating 4.07 — 1,091 ratings — published 1903 92 editions	my rating:
	Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. DuBois avg rating 4.44 — 62 ratings — published 1935 7 editions	my rating:
	John Brown by W.E.B. DuBois avg rating 4.18 — 38 ratings — published 1974 8 editions	my rating:
	Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. DuBois avg rating 4.26 — 34 ratings — published 1969 12 editions	my rating:
	W.E.B. Du Bois : Writings : The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles by W.E.B. DuBois avg rating 4.23 — 30 ratings — published 1987	my rating:
	The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by W.E.B. DuBois avg rating 4.06 — 31 ratings — published 1899 7 editions	my rating:
	Autobiography of W.E.B. Dubois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century by W.E.B. DuBois avg rating 4.44 — 25 ratings — published 1968	my rating:
	Dark Princess: A Romance (Banner Books) by W.E.B. DuBois avg rating 3.30 — 27 ratings — published 1975 3 editions	my rating:
	Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept by W.E.B. DuBois avg rating 4.10 — 21 ratings — published 1983 2 editions	my rating:
	Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by W.E.B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington avg rating 4.11 — 19 ratings — published 2007	my rating:

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quotes by W.E.B. DuBois

"There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know."
— W.E.B. DuBois

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"Herein lies the tragedy of the age:
Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty.
Not that men are wicked, - who is good?
Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth?
Nay, but that men know so little of men."
— W.E.B. DuBois

tags: humanity, ignorance

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"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."
— W.E.B. DuBois

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