November – January In residence at Bennett College from October 31st – November 11th Opening – 6pm, Friday November 11th The title of the work, Twice Told, comes from The Souls of Black Folk by writer and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. DuBois. In his 1903 book, DuBois wrote, “One ever feels his two-ness—an American, a Ne- gro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings . . . .” This quote describes DuBois’s theory of “double consciousness,” the duali- ty of the black American psyche in which black men and women must reconcile understanding of self with the perceptions of a …
