The Souls of Black Folk Quotes

“It was a hard struggle, for things did not come easily to him, [...] but all the world toward which he strove was of his own building, and he builded slow and hard.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“I wonder where he is to-day? I wonder if in that dim world beyond, as he came gliding in, there rose on some wan throne a King,—a dark and pierced Jew, who knows the writhings of the earthly damned, saying, as he lad those heart-wrung talents down, “Well done!” while round about the morning stars sat singing.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk