1 All night long the water is crying to me.
2 As the water all night long is crying to me.
3 I remember well when the shadow swept across me.
4 In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost.
5 He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa.
6 These powers of body and mind have in the past been strangely wasted, dispersed, or forgotten.
7 The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the Shadowy and of Egypt the Sphinx.
8 It is in the early days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation first bursts upon one, all in a day, as it were.
9 He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.
10 I was a little thing, away up in the hills of New England, where the dark Housatonic winds between Hoosac and Taghkanic to the sea.
11 Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine.
12 Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
13 Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.
14 This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.
15 Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
16 He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.
17 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's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
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