One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two t

One 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. – W. E. B. Du Bois

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