It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness,
this sense of always looking at one's self through
the eyes of others. . . One ever feels his twoness,- an
American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two
unreconciled strivings; two warrings ideals in one dark
body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it
from being torn asunder.

- W.E.B. Du Bois

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