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Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

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I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.
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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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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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What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true?
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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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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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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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We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.
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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 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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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 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 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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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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Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.
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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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