In the folds of this European civilization I was born and shall die, imprisoned, conditioned, depressed, exalted, and inspired. I flew round and round with the zeitgeist, waving my pen and lifting faint voices to explain, expound, and exhort, to see, foresee, and prophesy to the few who could or would listen.
W.E.B. DuBois, excerpted in Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander, and Arnold Rampersad — W.E.B. Du Bois & the American Soul | On Being
Tomorrow is the 150th Birthday of W.E.B. DuBois
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