Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
RICHARD WRIGHTI made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
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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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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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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.
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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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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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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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It made me love talk that sought answers to questions that could help nobody, that could only keep alive in me that enthralling sense of wonder and awe in the face of the drama of human feeling which is hidden by the external drama of life.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.
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I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true […].
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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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