“But what of Black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.” W. Du Bois in Black Reconstruction in America (1935)Ĭhosen by Eliza Araújo, Visiting Scholar at UMass AFROAm Department, Ph.D student at Universidade Federal da Paraíba, and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Fellow
And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?” W. “Nations reel and stagger on their way they make hideous mistakes they commit frightful wrongs they do great and beautiful things. Viewing anniversary parade from balcony of ancient Royal Palace in Peking, Oct. Du Bois in The Damnation of Women (1920)Ĭhosen by Sarah Holm Tanzi, 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow “Perhaps even higher than strength and art loom human sympathy and sacrifice as characteristic of Negro womanhood” W. Du Bois in The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History (Oxford University Press, 2007 ), 165.Ĭhosen by Phillip Sinitiere, Professor of History at the College of Biblical Studies, Houston, TX and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow But with all we accomplish all, even Peace.” W. There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. Each effort to stop this freedom of being is a blow at democracy-that real democracy which is reservoir and opportunity. But more especially and far above and beyond this, is a realm of true freedom: in thought and dream, fantasy and imagination in gift, aptitude, and genius-all possible manner of difference, topped with freedom of soul to do and be, and freedom of thought to give to a world and build into it, all wealth of inborn individuality. “Reader of dead words who would live deeds, this is the flowering of my logic: I dream of a world of infinitive and valuable variety not in the laws of gravity or atomic weights, but in human variety in height and weight, color and skin, hair and nose and lip. Rizo Lenshyn, German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” W. Portrait taken by writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten. Du Bois in Black Reconstruction in America (1935)Ĭhosen by Alexandria Russell, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Rutgers University and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow “The slave went free stood a brief moment in the sun then moved back again toward slavery.” W. Du Bois in Of the Ruling of Men (1920)Ĭhosen by Adam Dahl, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow “We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant ought not to vote.’ We would say, ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,’ and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no state is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule it.” W. Du Bois (1968)Ĭhosen by Freeden Blume Oeur, Associate Professor of Sociology and Education at Tufts University and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow “You are not and yet you are: your thoughts, your deeds, above all your dreams still live.” W. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903)Ĭhosen by Jay Cephas, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Northeastern University and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow
To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.” W. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town or, I fought at Mechanicsville or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may inquire. “Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. Group portrait of Du Bois and friends and family at his 70th birthday celebration at Atlanta University, 1938.
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