"Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life."

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Source : W.E.B. Du Bois (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.60, Courier Corporation

W. E. B. Du Bois

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“As an artist you very much want to have control over your dialogue and your image and when you become exposed in a way where other people are manipulating your brand or the public perception of you that's where it can be frustrating. It's when you want to tell everyone to shut the f*** up and say "hear it from me, not from them." That's all.”

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“In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.”

Source : Samuel George Morton, George Combe (1839). “Crania Americana; Or, A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To which is Prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species”, p.7, Philadelphia : J. Dobson ; London : Simpkin, Marshall
“Music is a mantra that soothes the soul...something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.”
“The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill, vision or voice, the result is a story beholden to and inevitably eclipsed by source material.”
“The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that heâ€™s dying donâ€™t give him pity for others.”
“My dogs are more important than my family.”
“I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him...to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good...”
“We cannot transform what we refuse to engage”

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