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Changed your life
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The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois. I was very young when I first read it so I didn't immediately understand this man's profound words. I still remember his monologue about the tragedy of the age:
"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."
As for how it changed my life, this book spoke to me on a spiritual level. It gave me an identity beyond who I was on the outside as a Black person. Identity isn't something predestined or determined by others but a conscious choice. We exist beyond this fatalistic reality. Mostly, this book introduced me to Du Bois whom has become one of my biggest inspirations as a writer and academic.
"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."
As for how it changed my life, this book spoke to me on a spiritual level. It gave me an identity beyond who I was on the outside as a Black person. Identity isn't something predestined or determined by others but a conscious choice. We exist beyond this fatalistic reality. Mostly, this book introduced me to Du Bois whom has become one of my biggest inspirations as a writer and academic.
