Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
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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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.
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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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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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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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Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
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I was taking a part of the South to transplant in alien soil, to see if it could grow differently, if it could drink of new and cool rains, bend in strange winds, respond to the warmth of other suns and, perhaps, to bloom
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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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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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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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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets.
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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