 | American essays - 1897 - 962 pages
...At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem ? I answer seldom a word. And yet, being a problem is a strange experience, — peculiar even for one who... | |
 | Giles Gunn - Religion - 1981 - 489 pages
...At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. And yet, being a problem is a strange experience, — peculiar even for one who... | |
 | Thomas H. Schaub - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 230 pages
...the task of answering the white man's question, which Du Bois poses at the beginning of his essay: "To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I seldom answer a word" ( 15). Though little has been written on the relationship between Du Bois and Ellison, Stepto's From... | |
 | Robert Gooding-Williams - Los Angeles (Calif.) - 1993 - 292 pages
...At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. Nearly a century later, we confine discussions about race in America to the "problems"... | |
 | Gary W. McDonogh - African American Catholics - 1993 - 404 pages
...interested, or reduce the boiling point to a simmer, as the occasion requires. To the real questions, How does it feel to be a problem? I seldom answer a word. (1965 [1903], 213) Even as we examine the historical changes over which blacks and whites have fought,... | |
 | Robert Gooding-Williams - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 292 pages
...At these 1 smile, or am interesied, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? 1 answer seldom a word. Nearly a century later, we confine discussions about race in America to the... | |
 | Shamoon Zamir - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 316 pages
...At these 1 smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. (SBF Souls of course turns out to be Du Bois's reply. The investigations that... | |
 | Beth Blue Swadener, Sally Lubeck - Social Science - 1995 - 304 pages
...Discourse of Risk To assess the damage is a dangerous act. —Cherrie Moraga, 1981 BETH BLUE SWADENER To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem! I answer seldom a word. —W. E B. DuBois, 1903 How the term "at risk" is constructed and the definitions... | |
 | Margaret J. Marshall - Education - 1995 - 286 pages
...delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it To the real question. How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. And yet, being a problem is a strange experience, — peculiar even for one who... | |
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - History - 1995 - 68 pages
...At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. And yet, being a problem is a strange experience, — peculiar even for one who... | |
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How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as... 
