“The slave went free stood a brief moment in the sun then moved back again toward slavery.” W. Du Bois in Of the Ruling of Men (1920)Ĭhosen by Adam Dahl, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow
“We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant ought not to vote.’ We would say, ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,’ and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no state is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule it.” W. Du Bois (1968)Ĭhosen by Freeden Blume Oeur, Associate Professor of Sociology and Education at Tufts University and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow
“You are not and yet you are: your thoughts, your deeds, above all your dreams still live.” W. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903)Ĭhosen by Jay Cephas, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Northeastern University and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.” W. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town or, I fought at Mechanicsville or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may inquire. “Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. That ugly things cancel out everything beautiful." -Rainbow Rowell, in response to the Parents Action League attempting to ban her novel from schools in Annoka-Hennepin, MN.Group portrait of Du Bois and friends and family at his 70th birthday celebration at Atlanta University, 1938. That if you grow up in an ugly situation, your story isn’t even fit for good people’s ears. "When these people call Eleanor & Park an obscene story, I feel like they’re saying that rising above your situation isn’t possible. “When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” ―George R.R.
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” ―Kurt Vonnegutġ4. “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” ―Salman Rushdieġ3. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imaginationġ2.
They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.” ―Ursula K. “A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions.
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