 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.  The Souls of Black Folk - Page 3by W. E. B. Du Bois - 2007 - 176 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - African Americans - 1903 - 292 pages
...their dazzling .opportunities, were theirs, not mine. But they should not keep these prizes, IsaicT; some, all, I would wrest from them. Just how I would...of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sfght in this American world, — a world which yjjlds_Jum no true self-consciousness, but only... | |
 | Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford - Africa, West - 1911 - 278 pages
...the plaintive query : " How does it feel to be a problem? " To descend to particulars, he says : " After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman,...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... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - American literature - 1923 - 808 pages
...different accounts of an experience that comes sometime in life to every Negro. "The Negro," says Du Bois, "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... | |
 | American essays - 1897 - 962 pages
...and a stranger in mine own house ? The " shades of the prisonhouse " closed round about us all : walk strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly...this American world, — a world which yields him no self -consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is... | |
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