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Quotation from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
“I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls.”
The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter VI, Of the Training of Black Men (Project Gutenberg text)
The close of the chapter on higher education, where the great books admit the reader whom society shuts out.
Citation: "I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls." — W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter VI, Of the Training of Black Men (Project Gutenberg text). (id the-souls-of-black-folk-q6)
Portrait: W.E.B. Du Bois by James E. Purdy, 1907 (cropped), James E. Purdy / Adam Cuerden, CC0.
