 | Asia - 1906 - 918 pages
...watch the streak of blue above. * By WE Burghardt Du Bois. (Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., 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... | |
 | Asia - 1906 - 946 pages
...the streak of blue above. * By WE Burghardt Du Bois. (Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., 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... | |
 | Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford - Africa, West - 1911 - 278 pages
...of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and 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 dogged strength alone keeps it from... | |
 | 1912 - 32 pages
...that looks on us in amused contempt or pity. One feels his two-ness, an American, a negro, two souls, 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, the longing to attain self-conscious... | |
 | John Moffatt Mecklin - African Americans - 1914 - 298 pages
...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 would of course be committing the psychologist's fallacy upon a gigantic scale to read the ideas... | |
 | John Moffatt Mecklin - African Americans - 1914 - 308 pages
...of others, of measuring one's soul 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 souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - American literature - 1923 - 808 pages
...others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt 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... | |
 | American essays - 1897 - 962 pages
...of others, of measuring one's soul 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 souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it... | |
 | August Meier - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 356 pages
...ambivalent loyalties toward race and nation in the minds of American Negroes. As Du Bois said in 1897: One feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro, two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings, two warring ideals in one dark body. . . . The history of the American Negro... | |
 | Archives - 1995 - 212 pages
...up the African predicament in America: "It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness. . . . 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... | |
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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's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness — an... 
