W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes

After The Egyptian And Indian, The Greek And Roman, The Teuton And Mongolian, The Negro Is A Sort Of Seventh Son, Born With A Veil, And Gifted With Second-sight In This American World, - A World Which Yields Him No True Self-consciousness, But Only Lets Him See Himself Through The Revelation Of The Other World. It Is A Peculiar Sensation, This Double-consciousness, This Sense Of Always Looking At One's Self Through The Eyes Of Others, Of Measuring One By The Tape Of A World That Looks On In Amused Contempt And Pity. One Ever Feels His Two-ness, - An American, A Negro ... Two Thoughts, Two Unreconciled Strivings; Two Warring Ideals In One Dark Body, Whose Dogged Strength Alone Keeps It From Being Torn Asunder.
The History Of The American Negro Is The History Of This Strife, - This Longing To Attain Self-conscious Manhood, To Merge His Double Self Into A Better And Truer Self.

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: After The Egyptian And Indian, The Greek And Roman, The Teuton And Mongolian, The Negro Is A Sort Of Seventh

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: After The Egyptian And Indian, The Greek And Roman, The Teuton And Mongolian, The Negro Is A Sort Of Seventh

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: After The Egyptian And Indian, The Greek And Roman, The Teuton And Mongolian, The Negro Is A Sort Of Seventh

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: After The Egyptian And Indian, The Greek And Roman, The Teuton And Mongolian, The Negro Is A Sort Of Seventh

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: After The Egyptian And Indian, The Greek And Roman, The Teuton And Mongolian, The Negro Is A Sort Of Seventh

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: After The Egyptian And Indian, The Greek And Roman, The Teuton And Mongolian, The Negro Is A Sort Of Seventh

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: After The Egyptian And Indian, The Greek And Roman, The Teuton And Mongolian, The Negro Is A Sort Of Seventh

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: After The Egyptian And Indian, The Greek And Roman, The Teuton And Mongolian, The Negro Is A Sort Of Seventh

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: After The Egyptian And Indian, The Greek And Roman, The Teuton And Mongolian, The Negro Is A Sort Of Seventh

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: After The Egyptian And Indian, The Greek And Roman, The Teuton And Mongolian, The Negro Is A Sort Of Seventh

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