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You talk so sweet I bet you have to suck on salt for half and hour to get the taste of sugar out of your mouth.
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― Seventh Son
― Seventh Son
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, 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 no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. 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 by the tape of a world that looks on in amused
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― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
