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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.


W.E.B. Du Bois

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ANTON DU BEKE Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
ANTON DU BEKE Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps ...
PETE DU PONT I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about bei...
ANTON DU BEKE I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk i...
JACQUELINE DU PRE I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes ri...
JACQUELINE DU PRE The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To s...
JOACHIM DU BELLAY Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the a...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]
JACQUES DU LORENS The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dini...
ANTON DU BEKE Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?
CHARLES DU BOS Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could bec...
CHARLES DU BOS Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling,
Words that weary and perplex and pander and conce...
GEORGE DU MAURIER Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER We're safe enough now,' he thought, 'we're snug and tight, like an air-raid shelter. We can hold out...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous ...
PETE DU PONT Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously jo...
ANTON DU BEKE I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.
MARCUS DU SAUTOY Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way...
PETE DU PONT