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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."
"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."
Explore more quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
"An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
"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."
"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."
"One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."
"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."
"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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