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W.E.B. Du Bois: “Yesterday, he thought with bitterness, she would scarcely have looked at him twice.”

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Yesterday, he thought with bitterness, she would scarcely have looked at him twice.
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W.E.B. Du Bois

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This quote expresses the bitterness of feeling overlooked due to racial and social barriers.

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