Ludovic Bois quote: "I wasn't surprised at all. In fact I had bet money that this auction would see a contemporary Chinese painting reach $1 million. I narrowly lost the bet, but there is no question in my mind that it will happen at the very next auction."

It's a heady feeling. Museums around the world are buying [contemporary Chinese art], Chinese collec...
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Eventually the 'Chinese Offspring' will go because it is an important work, even if it is difficult ...
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No news is good news.
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In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it
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To advance, however far, is profitless unless the ground gained can be consolidated, or the momentum...
LUDOVIC KENNEDY

She was full of spirit and also she was very beautiful. She moved wonderfully gracefully, as you wou...
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The ballet was the thing to which she was really committed - the film industry was a bit of a distra...
LUDOVIC KENNEDY

The use of Microsoft's .NET also has Web-services implications within an organization because it pro...
ROB BOIS

So many lives - notably the lives of thousands of young children - can be saved through the collecti...
HERVE LUDOVIC DE LYS

The situation is serious, the coming weeks will be critical.
HERVE LUDOVIC DE LYS

We can't expect immediate results.
HERVE LUDOVIC DE LYS

Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W.E.B. DU BOIS

My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against danc...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'�...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
W.E.B. DU BOIS

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W.E.B. DU BOIS

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpo...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W.E.B. DU BOIS

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; no...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striv...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-cons...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for ...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

I sit with

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and ener...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the p...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?
SHIRLEY GRAHAM DU BOIS

Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.
WILLIAM PèNE DU BOIS

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education is the development of power and ideal.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. DU BOIS

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what t...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which mo...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restrict...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Irela...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of educatio...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my you...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or rec...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I am a Bolshevik.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Ab...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they ...
WILLIAM E. B. DU BOIS

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critiq...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broa...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - '...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men....
W. E. B. DU BOIS

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivin...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in o...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are do...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word '...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of al...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to brea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast,...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's sel...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learn...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of the...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us m...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamel...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture amo...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
W. E. B. DU BOIS

For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best w...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that br...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justi...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It d...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a ninetee...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, a...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. Th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I wasn't surprised at all. In fact I had bet money that this auction would see a contemporary Chinese painting reach $1 million. I narrowly lost the bet, but there is no question in my mind that it will happen at the very next auction.

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I wasn't surprised at all. In fact I had bet money that this auction would see a contemporary Chinese painting reach $1 million. I narrowly lost the bet, but there is no question in my mind that it will happen at the very next auction.

Ludovic Bois

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