The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois · 1903

The 1903 text. 14 parts, about 68,065 words, 5 hours of reading. Source edition.

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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.
The Forethought, and chapter II · Read it in II: Of the Dawn of Freedom
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.
Chapter I, Of Our Spiritual Strivings · Read it in I: Of Our Spiritual Strivings
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.
Chapter I, Of Our Spiritual Strivings · Read it in I: Of Our Spiritual Strivings
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.
Chapter VI, Of the Training of Black Men · Read it in VI: Of the Training of Black Men

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