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
RICHARD WRIGHTBut 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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A mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed.
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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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You usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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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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Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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If you’ve a notion of what man’s heart is, wouldn’t you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man’s frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?
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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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