| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17884 |
| QUOTATION: | The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (18681963), U.S. civil rights leader, author. The Souls of Black Folk, ch. 14 (1903). |
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