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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

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I was born free.

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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.

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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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I am a Bolshevik.

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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

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It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.

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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 23rd, 1868

Died: August 27th, 1963

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