Alone Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body,…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a…

— W.E.B. DuBois

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self…

— Anonymous

The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced…

— Roy Ayers

“African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled promise of…

— Bruce Dain

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all…

— Bell Hooks

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black…

— James A. Baldwin

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“But, back of this, still broods silently the deep religious feeling of the real Negro heart, the stirring, unguided might of powerful human souls…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon…

— W.E.B. Du Bois