Du Bois, double-consciousness

30Nov09

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. – Du Bois, Of Our Spiritual Strivings

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