"the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line" (3)
"studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there" (3).
"the central problem of training men for life" (3)
"How does it feel to be a problem?...peculiar even for one who has never been anything else" (6)
"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-consciousnnes, this sense of alawys looking at one's self through the eyes of other...One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thought, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder" (7).
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"the contradiction of double aims...for he had but half a heart in either cause...the paradox that the knowledge his people needed was a twice-told tale to his white neighbors" (9)
"the cabalistic letters of the white man" (11)
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