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The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In III
2 Patience, humility, and adroitness must, in these growing black youth, replace impulse, manliness, and courage.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In X
3 In that little valley was a strange stillness as I rode up; for death and marriage had stolen youth and left age and childhood there.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In IV
4 We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults are not in the world earning incomes, but are making homes, learning of the world, or resting after the heat of the strife.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In VIII
5 When the spring came, and the birds twittered, and the stream ran proud and full, little sister Lizzie, bold and thoughtless, flushed with the passion of youth, bestowed herself on the tempter, and brought home a nameless child.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In IV
6 But here ninety-six per cent are toiling; no one with leisure to turn the bare and cheerless cabin into a home, no old folks to sit beside the fire and hand down traditions of the past; little of careless happy childhood and dreaming youth.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In VIII
7 If, however, the vistas disclosed as yet no goal, no resting-place, little but flattery and criticism, the journey at least gave leisure for reflection and self-examination; it changed the child of Emancipation to the youth with dawning self-consciousness, self-realization, self-respect.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In I