It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of a…

W. E. B. Du Bois
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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. ✨ Strivings of the Negro People (1897)
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