The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois
"What does it feel like to be a problem?” For the first time in college, a line from a book rang in my head for days. W. E. B. Du Bois’s realization of his racial reality and the question of how he would choose to exist in the face of this new knowledge struck me as a deeply theological question. What does it mean to exist in a space where your body is antithetical to what it means to be a citizen of that very place?