| William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - African Americans - 1903 - 284 pages
...pity. One ever feels his two-ness, — 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 history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious... | |
| William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - African Americans - 1904 - 298 pages
...pity. One ever feels his two-ness, — 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 history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious... | |
| Asia - 1906 - 946 pages
...London.) " One ever feels his two-ness—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 history of the American negro is the history of this strife—this longing to attain self-conscious... | |
| Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford - Africa, West - 1911 - 278 pages
...pity. One ever feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose...strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Ah ! there's the rub ! Poor Ethiopia! how sorely hath the iron of oppression entered into the very... | |
| John Moffatt Mecklin - African Americans - 1914 - 308 pages
...pity. One ever feels his two-ness, — an American, a negro, two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose...strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." It would of course be committing the psychologist's fallacy upon a gigantic scale to read the ideas... | |
| Vivian Trow Thayer - American literature - 1923 - 808 pages
...and pity. One feels his two-ness—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. It is this double consciousness of the Negro, always looking at himself through the eyes of others,... | |
| Jean Wagner - Biography & Autobiography - 1973 - 592 pages
...pity. One ever feels his two-ness, — an American, a Negro: two souls, two thoughts, two unrecondiled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose...dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. — WEB Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk, 1903, p. 3 Lasst alle Völker unter gleichem Himmel Sich gleicher... | |
| Amritjit Singh - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 184 pages
...pity. One ever feels his two-ness-an American, a Negro—two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose...strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” In 1903, he crystallized his seminal concept of “doubleconsciousness” in Souls of Black Folk' 4... | |
| American essays - 1897 - 1218 pages
...pity. One ever feels his two-ness, — 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 history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious... | |
| Giles Gunn - Religion - 1981 - 489 pages
...pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—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 history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious... | |
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