But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
RICHARD WRIGHTWhat could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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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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The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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The holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity.
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged.
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Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible… Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world.
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