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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.

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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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At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical.
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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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I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate.
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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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Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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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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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.
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Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad.
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