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...


The Selected Writings of W. E. B. DuBois (ed. 1970)

W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...