Double Consciousness Quotes

“One ever feels his two-ness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“It is a particular sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes of another.”
― Shawn Michelle Smith, Photography and the Optical Unconscious