"The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a bet...
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strenth alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Photo by Ian Turnell
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striv...
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