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Quotation by W.E.B. Du Bois
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W.E.B. Du Bois (13)Additional Sources
"Bleeding Ireland" (1971, first published 1921)"China" The Seventh Son (1971)"Communism, Marxism and the Negro Problem" The Seventh Son, vol. 2 (1933)"Reconstruction and Africa" The Seventh Son (1971)The Gift of Black Folk (1924)Related Subjects
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868–1963), U.S. civil rights leader, author. The Souls of Black Folk, ch. 1 (1903).
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