Status Updates From The Souls of Black Folk

“Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, some-where, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.” - p. 186

“Feeling deeply and keenly the tendencies and opportunities of the age in which they live, their souls are bitter at the fate which drops the Veil between; and the very fact that this bitterness is natural and justifiable only serves to intensify it and make it more maddening.” - p. 146

“What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in severe economic compe-tition, without political rights, and with ludicrously inadequate common-school facilities?“ - p. 128

“And the world whistled in his ears.”

I feel a lot of things. Mainly that Du Bois is one of the most masterful writers I’ve ever read.

“Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell. The red-clay sub-soil already had begun to peer above the loam. The harder the slaves were driven the more careless and fatal was their farming.” - p. 91