The Souls of Black Folk

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. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word

Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 10/07/2016
Pages: 126
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9781539376422