...feels his two-ness — an American, a negro ; two 'souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged...truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the other selves to be lost. . . . He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a negro and...

...feels his two-ness — an American, a negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings ; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged...truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the other selves to be lost. ... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a negro and...

...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 being torn asunder." Ah ! there's the rub ! Poor Ethiopia ! how sorely hath the iron of oppression entered into the very...

...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...the American negro is the history of this strife, the longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a truer, better self, to...

...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...

...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,...

...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. 194 195 The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain...

...Negro, two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings, two warring ideals in one dark body. . . . The history of the American Negro is the history of...merge his double self into a better and truer self. ... He would not Africanize America for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would...

...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." By the time he graduated from Fisk in 1888, Du Bois was inclined to draw no distinction between his...

...is what Brooks's poetry has always been about: "this longing to attain self-conscious [personjhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self....merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost."21 Although Brooks's poetry is modern, American, and black, some critics think her latest poetry...