The Souls of Black Folk PDF

.. W.I.. Du 8011 Tie S I of Blad FolA I does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an euellent nitiea. were theirs. not mine. But they ahould not keep colored man in my town; or, I foupa at Mechanicsville; or,...

.. W.I.. Du 8011 Tie S I of Blad FolA I does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an euellent nitiea. were theirs. not mine. But they ahould not keep colored man in my town; or, I foupa at Mechanicsville; or, these pri1ea, I said; aome, all, I would wreat from them. Do not theae Southem oulr8pl make your blood boil? At Juat how I would do it I could never decide: by reading theae I amile, or am inteieated. or reduce tM- boili"I to a law, by hee)i"I the sick. by telling the wonded'ul talea that abnaier, aa the occasion may require. To the real question, awam in my head, some way. Willi other black boya the How does it feel to be a problem? I anawer seldom a wont. lbife WB8 DOI 10 fiercely IIIDDY: their youth shrunk into And yet, beiDI a problem ii a atrange experience­ lallelMI IJCOPUDCY, or into ailent hatred of the pale peculiar even for one who has never been anything else,..tel about them and mocki"I distruat of everything eave perhaps in babyhood and in Europe. It ii in the eady white; or WIited itaelf in a bitter cry, Why did God make daya of rollicking boyhood that the aevelation fint bunts me an outeaaa and a 8llaDger in mine own house? The upon one, all in a day, as it were. I remember well when abadea ofthe priaon-houaecloaed IOUDd about uaall: walla the ahadow awept 8CI088 me. I wu a little thing. away up ltrait and to the wbiteat, but relenllesely nanow, in the billa of New Enpad, where the dark Houaatonic tall, and uaacaJahle to 80D8 ofaighl wbo muat plod damly winds between Hooaac and Taghkaoin to the aea. lo a wee an in 1e1ignatioa, or beat unavailioa palms agahwt the wooden achoolhouae, eomething put it into the boy&' and etone, or ateadily, half bopelesaly, watch the alreak ofblue girls' head& to buy ppoua viaiting-card&-len centa a above. package-end acbenp. The excbenge '1111 meny, till After the F.gpliaa and Indian, be Greek and Roman. one girl. a tall newcomer, niuaecl my canl,-reluaed it the Teuton au+N H o, he Nepo ia a aort of seventh. perempt4>rily, with a gl DM. 'l1lea it dawned upon me with -. bam aiftecl.with aecond eight in this a certain auddenneu that I wu di8'erent &om the othen; American -wmid which yieJda him DO tlUe self. or like, mayhap, in and· wt longing, but out oomaio,98Dft88, IJUl only le1a him aee himeelf thiough the from their world by a· vut veil.) bad thereafter DO deaile l89elaliollofthe alherwodd. It ii pec11Hareenaation, this to tear down that veil, to cieep.tluough; I held all beyond double-coaaciou this eeme of alwaya looking at it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of one\ aelf tbrougb the eyes of others, of meuwiDg one's blue aky and peat wandering &badowa. Tbat sky wu eoul by the tape of a world that lopb on m' used l'JOII bluest when I could beat my male8 at eumiMlion time, or tempi and pity. One ever feela hfa twoaeu.--;en Ameri­ beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their atriagy heads. caa. a Negro; two aouls, two dlOlighta, tw9 unreconciled Alas, with the yean all this fine conlempt hepn to fade; elrivinp; two W8fflDI icleala in one dark body, whose for the worlds I loapcl for, and all their dealing QPPOdll· daged emmgth alone keeps it 6om being tom aauncler.