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What do you think the author was trying to say here:


It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others. . . . One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warrings ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.


W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

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