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Quotation from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
“One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter I, Of Our Spiritual Strivings (Project Gutenberg text)
The definition of double consciousness, which follows the image of the Negro as a seventh son born with a veil.
Citation: "One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." — W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter I, Of Our Spiritual Strivings (Project Gutenberg text). (id the-souls-of-black-folk-q2)
Portrait: W.E.B. Du Bois by James E. Purdy, 1907 (cropped), James E. Purdy / Adam Cuerden, CC0.
