Ruby

“all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“men may listen to the striving in the souls of black folk.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“In those sombre forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself,—darkly as through a veil;”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk