On the record
Women, for instance, can seldom expect to be a majority; artists must always be the few; ability is always rare, and black folk in this land are but a tenth.
Said by
W.E.B. Du Bois
Source
gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “Women, for instance, can seldom expect to be a majority; artists must always be the few; ability is always rare, and…”
Editor's note · Context
Du Bois highlights that certain groups, like women and artists, often remain in the minority within society.
Share
More from W.E.B. Du Bois
Jan 1, 1903
He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.
Jan 1, 1903
The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.
Jan 1, 1903
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.
Jan 1, 1903
Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.