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anhamati 's review for:
The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Du Bois sings with a powerful, eloquent, and lyrical voice that immediately pulls one into the tragedies and hopes of, well, the souls of black folk (that still ring very true today).
There are a few passages that really resonated with me. Note that my version of the book also includes two essays: 'The Talented Tenth' (1903) and 'The Souls of White Folk' (1920).
From 'The Souls of Black Folk':
(speaking of Alexander Crummell's little-known legacy) 'And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,- all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,- who is good? not that men are ignorant,- what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.'
From 'The Talented Tenth':
'It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.'
'Education must not simply teach work- it must teach Life...The Negro race, like all other races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men.'
From 'The Souls of White Folk':
(of WWI) 'Among some of us, I doubt not, this sudden descent of Europe into hell brought unbounded surprise; to others, over wide area, it brought the Schaden Freude of the bitterly hurt; but most of us, I judge, looked on silently and sorrowfully, in sober thought, seeing sadly the prophecy of our own souls.'
There are a few passages that really resonated with me. Note that my version of the book also includes two essays: 'The Talented Tenth' (1903) and 'The Souls of White Folk' (1920).
From 'The Souls of Black Folk':
(speaking of Alexander Crummell's little-known legacy) 'And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,- all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,- who is good? not that men are ignorant,- what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.'
From 'The Talented Tenth':
'It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.'
'Education must not simply teach work- it must teach Life...The Negro race, like all other races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men.'
From 'The Souls of White Folk':
(of WWI) 'Among some of us, I doubt not, this sudden descent of Europe into hell brought unbounded surprise; to others, over wide area, it brought the Schaden Freude of the bitterly hurt; but most of us, I judge, looked on silently and sorrowfully, in sober thought, seeing sadly the prophecy of our own souls.'