Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
RICHARD WRIGHTWe had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.
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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.
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The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.
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All literature is protest.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.
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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em.
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there are times when life’s ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
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