William Edward Burghardt Du Bois frasi celebri
da The Talented Tenth, in The Negro Problem, New York 1903
Origine: Citato in Enrica Rigo, Lezioni di Razza, il manifesto, 21 gennaio 2009.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: Frasi in inglese
for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.
Origine: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. XI: Of the Passing of the First-Born