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“So for you this ‘two-nessâ€� is less your internal sense of self warring with how others view you than it is…something more congenital.â€� “Yes, exactly. It’s innate, inborn. I descend from the oppressed and the oppressor. I’m both the white girl and the ‘coloredâ€� girl.â€� I could see Susannah was struggling with this. “Do you think white people view you as black and black people view you as white?â€� she asked. “It’s trickier than that. I think both white and black people view me as neither. Damn. I hate talking about stuff like this,â€� I said suddenly. “And I wish I hadn’t contrived such a complicated background for myself here. I’m living a euphemism. That’s what my ‘two-nessâ€� is, or what it’s become. All that Moorish-Spanish-French business, hiding what I am. Why can I not be simply what I am, a biracial woman from Virginia?”
― Deborah Truscott, Across Time