The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American. β¨ W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, p.28, Oxford University Press
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