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| 28ef531 | My name is Nick Sinclair," he said, and watched the young man's curious smile change to open animosity. "I would like to see Lauren." "I'm Lauren's brother," the young man retorted, "and she doesn't want to see you." Her brother! Nick's momentary relief was followed by an absurd impulse to smash the younger man's face for stealing Lauren's allowances when she was a little girl. "I've come to see her," Nick stated impacably, "and if I have t.. | Judith McNaught | ||
| c5b5bde | She remebered the angry hurt she had felt because his mother had abandoned him as a young boy,and she cried even harder.His mother should have drowned him! | Judith McNaught | ||
| 87e1fdc | are the man Alexandra described in her note as an 'unspeakable cad, vile libertine,' and 'despoiler of innocents'?" "I'm all that and more," Ian replied grimly." | Judith McNaught | ||
| fc651e6 | He waited until she was standing directly across his desk from him before he said quietly, "You've chosen a poor time to apologize,Lauren. I have to leave for a luncheon appointment in five minutes." Lauren almost choked on his outrageous presumption that owed an apology,but she merely favored him with an amused smile. "I hate to bruise your ego, but I didn't come up here to apologize." | Judith McNaught | ||
| 7737a7a | You're rather young, Miss Danner," Mary summarized, her pale blue gaze scraping Lauren's face and figure. "I'm aging quickly," Laruen replied. Ignoring the older woman's piercing look, she settled into the secretarial desk opposite Mary's in the large officec." | Judith McNaught | ||
| 2487163 | I thought you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created. | romance | Judith McNaught | |
| 5b1523c | If you aren't a living example of 'the devil quoting scripture.' | Judith McNaught | ||
| 2eccb55 | That's easy," Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ..." | quip | Les Standiford | |
| 578fd20 | To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n. | John Milton | ||
| 2b70dc4 | Your sight will be lost. It is not too late. You are humble still, pure. Let go of this fascination with earthly riches. You have so much more than they. | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 611b18c | I know one thing. If you let your personal hate interfere, you will bury your cause." We" | Tess Uriza Holthe | ||
| 3a7297c | The truth is I am an unlucky honest man that speaks my sentiments to all and with emphasis. | Ron Chernow | ||
| 9bfc4bc | Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference. | Ann Packer | ||
| c213a39 | She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win. p. 246 | Ann Packer | ||
| 97de5c7 | Sarabeth wondered at the sheer energy it must have taken for her mother to be dissatisfied by so much. Her psyche was like a huge grid of mousetraps, set to spring at the lightest touch. There were traps for Sarabeth's father,traps for Sarabeth. The biggest trap, though, was the grid itself,the trap of being Lorelei. | Ann Packer | ||
| 93c90d9 | Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing--a childless mother. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| bd1c8b5 | the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,--a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. 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 .. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| aad52ec | its police system was arranged to deal with blacks alone, and tacitly assumed that every white man was ipso facto a member of that police. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| c03f427 | At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 20fce63 | He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| d67ac9e | And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 11ebc66 | I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 9f436e7 | By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new economic system, and was unconsciously ripe for a new philosophy of life. Nothing suited his condition then better than the doctrines of passive submission embodied in the newly learned Christianity. Slave masters early realized this, and cheerfully aided religious propaganda within certain bounds. The long system of re.. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 91cfd3d | As the noted author and intellectual W .E. B. Du Bois says, we've given all of our economic power away. "When you owe another, your freedom is impaired," Du Bois counseled. "Your ability to decide your destiny is tainted by the amount you owe." | Dennis Kimbro | ||
| 0ea5ac9 | What are these songs, and what do they mean? I know little of music and can say nothing in technical phrase, but I know something of men, and knowing them, I know that these songs are the articulate message of the slave to the world. They tell us in these eager days that life was joyous to the black slave, careless and happy. I can easily believe this of some, of many. But not all the past South, though it rose from the dead, can gainsay th.. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| e93a366 | Not for me,--I shall die in my bonds,--but for fresh young souls who have not known the night and waken to the morning; a morning when men ask of the workman, not "Is he white?" but "Can he work?" When men ask artists, not "Are they black?" but "Do they know?" | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 27c6ce7 | perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| ac7ab90 | Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may marshal strong indictments against them, but their counter-cries, lacking though they be in formal logic, have burning truths within them which you may not wholly ignore, O Southern Gentlemen! | righteous-anger truth | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| 7dbe702 | The dangerously clear logic of the Negro's position will more and more loudly assert itself in that day when increasing wealth and more intricate social organization preclude the South from being, as it so largely is, simply an armed camp for intimidating black folk. Such waste of energy cannot be spared if the South is to catch up with civilization. And as the black third of the land grows in thrift and skill, unless skilfully guided in it.. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 3fa3d93 | One ever feels his two-ness--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. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 1345400 | IX. THE PRICE OF DISASTER The price of the disaster of slavery and civil war was the necessity of quickly assimilating into American democracy a mass of ignorant laborers in whose hands alone for the moment lay the power of preserving the ideals of popular government; of overthrowing a slave economy and establishing upon it an industry primarily for the profit of the workers. It was this price which in the end America refused to pay and tod.. | democracy reconstruction slavery | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| c174b9b | We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write. This but partially expresses the fact. They are ignorant of the world about them, of modern economic organization, of the function of government, of individual worth and possibilities,--of nearly all those things which slavery in self-defence had to keep them from learning. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| cc07507 | The espousal of the doctrine of Negro inferiority by the South was primarily because of economic motives and the inter-connected political urge necessary to support slave industry; but to the watching world it sounded like the carefully thought out result of experience and reason; and because of this it was singularly disastrous for modern civilization science and religion, in art and government, as well as in industry. The South could say .. | american-blindspot racism slavery | W E B Du Bois | |
| f5be249 | The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. Such an institution the South of to-day sorely needs. She has religion, earnest, bigoted:--religion that on both sides the Veil.. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 7050fcb | VIII. TRANSUBSTANTIATION OF A POOR WHITE How Andrew Johnson, unexpectedly raised to the Presidency, was suddenly set between a democracy which included poor whites and black men, and an autocracy that included Big Business and slave barons; and how torn between impossible allegiances, he ended in forcing a hesitant nation to choose between the increased political power of a restored Southern oligarchy and votes for Negroes. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 531113a | And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. And to make men, we must have ideals, broad, pure, and inspiring ends of living, not sordid money-getting... The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not fame. | education learning school | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| 82b12b2 | Thus all art is propaganda and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda. But I do care when propaganda is confined to one side while the other is stripped and silent. | history propaganda writing | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| a8e0b25 | Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," saw in every present hindrance or help a dark fatalism bound to bring all things right in His own good time. The mass of those to whom slavery was a dim recollection of childhood found the world a puzzling thing: it asked little of them, and they answered with little, and yet it ridiculed their offering. Such a paradox they could not understan.. | hope obstacles progress | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| 4ca9f35 | Rejection of the racial equality clause was a particularly bitter grievance for members of the newly formed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and their spokesman, W. E. B. Du Bois.) | Arthur Herman | ||
| 4fad855 | What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don't know,--what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam. It is a depressing place,--bare, unshaded, with no charm of past association, only a memory of forced human toil,--now, then, and before the war. They are not happy, these black men whom we meet throughout this region. There is little of the joyous abandon and playfulness which we are wont to associate with the plantation Negro." | sharecropping stereotype | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| bb9f8b8 | Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling; but when I speak of Mrs. Bruce as my friend, the word is sacred. | Harriet Ann Jacobs | ||
| 93225c8 | with growing exploitation, until they fought slavery to save democracy and then lost democracy in a new and vaster slavery. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| fa03dfa | Now it happens that both master and man have just enough argument on their respective sides to make it difficult for them to understand each other. The Negro dimly personifies in the white man all his ills and misfortunes; if he is poor, it is because the white man seizes the fruit of his toil; if he is ignorant, it is because the white man gives him neither time nor facilities to learn; and, indeed, if any misfortune happens to him, it is .. | misunderstanding race-relations | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| 1897fe1 | Not a single Southern legislature stood ready to admit a Negro, under any conditions, to the polls; not a single Southern legislature believed free Negro labor was possible without a system of restrictions that took all its freedom away; there was scarcely a white man in the South who did not honestly regard Emancipation as a crime, and its practical nullification as a duty. | W.E.B. Du Bois |