"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?" ― W. E. B. Du Bois Topic(s): Power More From W. E. B. Du Bois "Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. (W.E.B DuBois)" "But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire." "An American, a Negro… two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." More In Power "Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."― Samuel Taylor Coleridge "There are times when I’m driving home after a day’s shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would’ve been so much better if I had written it out."― Larry David "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."― Milan Kundera