W.E.B Du Bois (1868-1963)
What up world!! W.E.B Du Bois was a brilliant African American. In his essay the "Damnation of women he showed much love to our African American women.This quote from the essay is dedicated to all my beautiful African American and African sisters.
"For this, their promise, and for their hard past, I honor the women of my race. Their beauty,-their dark and mysterious beauty of midnight eyes, crumpled hair, and soft, full-featured faces-is perhaps more to me than to you, because I was born to its warm and subtle spell; but their worth is yours as well as mine. No other women on earth could have emerged from the hell of force and temptation which once engulfed and still surrounds black women in America with half the modesty and womanliness that they retain. I have always felt like bowing myself before them in all abasement, searching to bring some tribute to these long suffering victims, these burdened sisters of mine, whom the world, the wise, white world, loves to affront and ridicule and wantonly to insult. I have known the women of many lands and nations,-I have known and seen and lived beside them, but none have I known more sweetly feminine, more unswervingly loyal, more desperately earnest, and more instinctively pure in body and in soul than the daughters of my black mothers. This, then,-a little thing-to their memory and inspiration." [1] 1920
References
[1] Gates Jr. Henry L., and Nelie Y Mckay. eds. "African American Literature" 2nd ed. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2004.
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