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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.

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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.
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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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Education Literature Medicine Own Religion Science System
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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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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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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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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Answer Drama Feeling Help Human Love Made Nobody Question Sense Sought Wonder
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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Dead Know might Something Southern Switch Track Wrong
I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
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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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Emotionally Factually Knows Stories True
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer.
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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .
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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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Anything Beyond Breath Denied Else Feel Hunger New

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