“It is a abnormal sensation, this double-consciousness, this experience of at all times taking a look at one’s self during the eyes of others,…
March 12, 2017
“It is a atypical sensation, this double-consciousness, this experience of all the time one’s self during the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by way of the tape of a global that appears on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings;