One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring id — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
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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.

— W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
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