The would-be black savant was confronted by the paradox...knowledge his people needed was a twice-told tale to his white neighbors, while the knowledge which would teach the white world was Greek to his own flesh and blood.-- W.E.B. Du Bois

...the inevitable result of things unsaid, we find ourselves...oppressed with a dangerous and reverberating silence...-- James Baldwin

Double consciousness=twice the power, twice the perception...but watch who you're talking to.
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