Happy birthday, W. E. B. Du Bois! Here are some quotes by this significant thinker.
“Ignorance is a cure for nothing.”
“Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
John Madera's fiction may be found in Conjunctions, Opium Magazine, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His criticism may be found in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.