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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." --F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock....his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him." --F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men." --F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — no through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion…" --F. Scott Fitzgerald

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…" --F. Scott Fitzgerald



“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.” --W.E.B Du Bois

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” --W.E.B. Du Bois

“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.” --W.E.B. Du Bois

Reflection on the American Dream